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Henri Bergson: The present contains...

Henri Bergson: The present contains...

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the...

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Mencius: He who wishes...

Mencius: He who wishes...

He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

Source: Works, translated by...

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George Henry Lewes: The only cure...

George Henry Lewes: The only cure...

The only cure for grief is action.

Source: The Spanish Drama.
-- George Henry...

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Albert Camus: To insure the...

Albert Camus: To insure the...

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The advantage of...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The advantage of...

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In every ascetic...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In every ascetic...

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other...

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Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off...

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Djuna Barnes: I'm a fart...

Djuna Barnes: I'm a fart...

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet, under a cow pat.

Source: Doctor, in...

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James Joyce: Christopher Columbus, as...

James Joyce: Christopher Columbus, as...

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover...

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J R R Tolkien: I am told...

J R R Tolkien: I am told...

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Source: Acknowledging...

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C P Snow: Technology . ....

C P Snow: Technology . ....

Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: She discovered with...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: She discovered with...

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but...

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Isaac Singer: When I was...

Isaac Singer: When I was...

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a...

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Mencius: Men must be...

Mencius: Men must be...

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to...

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Oswald Spengler: If few can...

Oswald Spengler: If few can...

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

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Theodor W Adorno: Culture is only...

Theodor W Adorno: Culture is only...

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it...

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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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Gaston Bachelard: Childhood lasts all...

Gaston Bachelard: Childhood lasts all...

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life. . . . Poets will help us to...

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Jacques Maritain: Americans seem sometimes...

Jacques Maritain: Americans seem sometimes...

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn...

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Otto Weininger: The genius which...

Otto Weininger: The genius which...

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Source: Sex and...

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