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Robert Graves: Anthropologists are a...

Robert Graves: Anthropologists are a...

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples...

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Robert Graves: To be a...

Robert Graves: To be a...

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Source: Horizon.
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Robert Graves: The remarkable thing...

Robert Graves: The remarkable thing...

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good -- in spite of all the people who say he is very...

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Anita Loos: I really think...

Anita Loos: I really think...

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very, very...

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Richard Wright: The artist must...

Richard Wright: The artist must...

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Source: 12 Million Black...

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Frederick Buechner: You can't be...

Frederick Buechner: You can't be...

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of...

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Arthur Schopenhauer: Buying books would...

Arthur Schopenhauer: Buying books would...

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books...

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Theodor W Adorno: A successful work...

Theodor W Adorno: A successful work...

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the...

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Antisthenes: As iron is...

Antisthenes: As iron is...

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

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Gaston Bachelard: Literary imagination is...

Gaston Bachelard: Literary imagination is...

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

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Giambattista Vico: Uniform ideas originating...

Giambattista Vico: Uniform ideas originating...

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of...

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Friedrich Engels: Some laws of...

Friedrich Engels: Some laws of...

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Source: In The...

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Bernard Mandeville: The only thing...

Bernard Mandeville: The only thing...

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honour is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one...

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Otto Weininger: Talent is hereditary;...

Otto Weininger: Talent is hereditary;...

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (e.g., the Bach family); genius is not...

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Gilbert Ryle: Philosophy is the...

Gilbert Ryle: Philosophy is the...

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

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B. J. Gupta: God, give me...

B. J. Gupta: God, give me...

God, give me courage to do what I can, humility to admit what I can't, and wisdom to know the...

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Chuang-tzu: Flow with whatever...

Chuang-tzu: Flow with whatever...

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is...

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Mahatma Gandhi: The difference between...

Mahatma Gandhi: The difference between...

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's...

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Socrates: Children today are...

Socrates: Children today are...

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their...

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Socrates: Pay attention to...

Socrates: Pay attention to...

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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