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Antisthenes: Not to unlearn...

Antisthenes: Not to unlearn...

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

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Antisthenes: It is better...

Antisthenes: It is better...

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the...

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Friedrich Engels: Everything must justify...

Friedrich Engels: Everything must justify...

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up...

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Alan W Watts: Zen. . ....

Alan W Watts: Zen. . ....

Zen. . . does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is...

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Epicurus: It is not...

Epicurus: It is not...

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help...

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Epicurus: A free life...

Epicurus: A free life...

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or...

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Francis H Bradley: It is by...

Francis H Bradley: It is by...

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: In order to...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: In order to...

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we...

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Doug Horton: If food were...

Doug Horton: If food were...

If food were free, why work?

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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William R Alger: The wealth of...

William R Alger: The wealth of...

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

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William E Channing: Every man is...

William E Channing: Every man is...

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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St Teresa of Avila: If we plant...

St Teresa of Avila: If we plant...

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe...

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Remy de Gourmont: Very simple ideas...

Remy de Gourmont: Very simple ideas...

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Source: In The...

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Jose Ortega y Gasset: We live at...

Jose Ortega y Gasset: We live at...

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to...

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Socrates: I decided that...

Socrates: I decided that...

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,...

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Socrates: Let him that...

Socrates: Let him that...

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Source: In Reader's...

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: If you do...

Heraclitus of Ephesus: If you do...

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our house is...

Our house is made of glass . . . and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect...

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Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg...

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