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Friedrich Nietzsche: The ascetic makes...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The ascetic makes...

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

Source: Human, All Too Human, aph. 76,...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The individual has...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The individual has...

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The best friend...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The best friend...

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: A consistent thinker...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: A consistent thinker...

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a...

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Epictetus: He who exercises...

Epictetus: He who exercises...

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Source: In The...

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Mahatma Gandhi: What is a...

Mahatma Gandhi: What is a...

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he...

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Milan Kundera: No great movement...

Milan Kundera: No great movement...

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes...

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Kingsley Amis: He was of...

Kingsley Amis: He was of...

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was...

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Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish...

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Homer: It is always...

Homer: It is always...

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

Source:...

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Bliss Carman: There is only...

Bliss Carman: There is only...

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be...

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Salman Rushdie: I used to...

Salman Rushdie: I used to...

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is...

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Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and...

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Salman Rushdie: When thought becomes...

Salman Rushdie: When thought becomes...

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Source: In...

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Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of...

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Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it...

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Joseph Heller: [Catch22] specified that...

Joseph Heller: [Catch22] specified that...

[Catch22] specified that a concern for one's safety . . . was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could...

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Joseph Heller: Hungry Joe collected...

Joseph Heller: Hungry Joe collected...

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger...

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Mary McCarthy: There are no...

Mary McCarthy: There are no...

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without...

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Peter De Vries: Or look at...

Peter De Vries: Or look at...

Or look at it this way.
Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.


Source: Forever...

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