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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: What I like...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: What I like...

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being...

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P D James: A man who...

P D James: A man who...

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English...

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Rachel Field: I used to...

Rachel Field: I used to...

I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily...

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Tom Sharpe: I have yet...

Tom Sharpe: I have yet...

I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the...

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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 hard to be sought out, and...

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Giordano Bruno: The beginning, middle,...

Giordano Bruno: The beginning, middle,...

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: I hate books,...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: I hate books,...

I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don' t understand.

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Maimonides: Medical practice is...

Maimonides: Medical practice is...

Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be...

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Thomas Paine: What we obtain...

Thomas Paine: What we obtain...

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is the dearness only that gives everything value. Heaven knows how...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: One often contradicts...

Friedrich Nietzsche: One often contradicts...

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was...

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Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are refined...

Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are refined...

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of...

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William Hamilton: Truth, like a...

William Hamilton: Truth, like a...

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook the more it shines.

Source: Discussions on...

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Otto Weininger: Everything evil is...

Otto Weininger: Everything evil is...

Everything evil is revenge.

Source: In 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers,...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: A serious and...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A serious and...

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

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Karl Popper: Our knowledge can...

Karl Popper: Our knowledge can...

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

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Gaston Bachelard: A special kind...

Gaston Bachelard: A special kind...

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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Gaston Bachelard: Man is a...

Gaston Bachelard: Man is a...

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Source: The Psychoanalysis of...

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Alan W Watts: The secret of...

Alan W Watts: The secret of...

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: No one likes...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: No one likes...

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Resting on your...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Resting on your...

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your...

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