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Mortimer Adler: The telephone book...

Mortimer Adler: The telephone book...

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

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Ernest Renan: You may take...

Ernest Renan: You may take...

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one...

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Albert Camus: I don't want...

Albert Camus: I don't want...

I don't want to be a genius - I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

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John Newton: Trials are medicines...

John Newton: Trials are medicines...

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the...

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Henri Bergson: To perceive means...

Henri Bergson: To perceive means...

To perceive means to immobilize. . . we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...

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James Joyce: Art is the...

James Joyce: Art is the...

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

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Robert Graves: To bring the...

Robert Graves: To bring the...

To bring the dead to life
Is no great magic.
Few are wholly dead:
Blow on a dead man's embers
And a live...

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Georges Bernanos: The world is...

Georges Bernanos: The world is...

The world is eaten up by boredom. . . . It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in . . . . It...

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Richard Wright: I would hurl...

Richard Wright: I would hurl...

I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo. If an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send...

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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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Sissela Bok: To mature is...

Sissela Bok: To mature is...

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had,...

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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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Epicurus: A free life...

Epicurus: A free life...

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or...

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Socrates: Living well and...

Socrates: Living well and...

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Source: Crito,...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Nothing is so...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Source: Culture and Value (ed....

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Marie Anne du Deffand: I hear nothings,...

Marie Anne du Deffand: I hear nothings,...

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the...

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William Plomer: Creativity --...

William Plomer: Creativity --...

Creativity -- the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Source: In Peter's...

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Daniel Boorstin: . . ....

Daniel Boorstin: . . ....

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

Source: The...

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Robert Stone: I start early...

Robert Stone: I start early...

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole...

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