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Albert Schweitzer: I too had...

Albert Schweitzer: I too had...

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

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Francois Rabelais: Half the world...

Francois Rabelais: Half the world...

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Source: 'Pantagruel'
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Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Whatever is clearly...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Whatever is clearly...

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Source: letter to James Steuart, July...

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Honore de Balzac: Modesty is the...

Honore de Balzac: Modesty is the...

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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-- Honore de Balzac, (May 20...

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Epicurus: The time when...

Epicurus: The time when...

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a...

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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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Giordano Bruno: We delight in...

Giordano Bruno: We delight in...

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together...

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Ernest Renan: When people complain...

Ernest Renan: When people complain...

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of...

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Oswald Spengler: The secret of...

Oswald Spengler: The secret of...

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

Source: In...

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Theodor W Adorno: Intolerance of ambiguity...

Theodor W Adorno: Intolerance of ambiguity...

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Source:...

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Antisthenes: It is better...

Antisthenes: It is better...

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the...

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Francis H Bradley: Where everything is...

Francis H Bradley: Where everything is...

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

Source: In Correct...

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Friedrich Engels: An ounce of...

Friedrich Engels: An ounce of...

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Source: In Reg Groves, The Strange...

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Alan W Watts: Zen. . ....

Alan W Watts: Zen. . ....

Zen. . . does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is...

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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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Francis H Bradley: The world is...

Francis H Bradley: The world is...

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

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Socrates: The beginning of...

Socrates: The beginning of...

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Source: In The Book of Success,...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: In order to...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: In order to...

In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we...

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Raoul Vaneigem: People without imagination...

Raoul Vaneigem: People without imagination...

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all...

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