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Maimonides: The risk of...

Maimonides: The risk of...

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

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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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Arthur Schopenhauer: Ordinary people merely...

Arthur Schopenhauer: Ordinary people merely...

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use'...

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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.

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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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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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Robert Graves: When the days...

Robert Graves: When the days...

When the days of rejoicing are over,
When the flags are stowed safely away,
They will dream of another wild 'War...

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Georges Bernanos: Hope is a...

Georges Bernanos: Hope is a...

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips,...

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Georges Bernanos: It's a fine...

Georges Bernanos: It's a fine...

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

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Edith Wharton: Another unsettling element...

Edith Wharton: Another unsettling element...

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done...

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Phillips Brooks: Be such a...

Phillips Brooks: Be such a...

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth...

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Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has...

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Loren Eiseley: Like the herd...

Loren Eiseley: Like the herd...

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

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A J Balfour: I do not...

A J Balfour: I do not...

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you...

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Konrad Adenauer: The one sure...

Konrad Adenauer: The one sure...

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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