May 2012
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“Plato, in common with most Greek philosophers, took the view that leisure is essential to wisdom, which will therefore not be found among those who have to work for their living, but only among those who have independent means, or who are relieved by the state from anxieties as to their subsistence. This point of view is essentially aristocratic.”
- Bertrand Russel, A History of...
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“Everyone agrees Socrates was ugly.”
- Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
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“When some misfortune threatens, consider seriously and deliberately what is the very worst that could possibly happen. Having looked this possible misfortune in the face, give yourself sound reasons for thinking that after all it would be no such very terrible disaster. Such reasons always exist, since at the worst, nothing that happens to oneself has any cosmic importance. When you have...
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“In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.”
- Anton Chekhov, The Seagull
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“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is the tree of life.”
- Biblical proverb
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“A newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are...
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“Oh! how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 1599
April 2012
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“Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.”
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1611
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“What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1922
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“An exquisite pleasure had invaded my senses, something isolated, detached, with no suggestion of its origin. And at once the vicissitudes of life had become indifferent to me, its disasters innocuous, its brevity illusory – this new sensation having had on me the effect which love has of filling me with a precious essence; or rather this essence was not in me it was me. … Whence did...
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“A young man married is a man that’s marr’d.”
- William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well, 1605
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“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
- Francis Bacon
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“HBO made television cool.”
- Michael Wolff, 2012
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“Plato is always concerned to advocate views that will make people what he thinks virtuous; he is hardly ever intellectually honest, because he allows himself to judge doctrines by their social consequences. Even about this, he is not honest; he pretends to follow the argument and to be judging by purely theoretical standards, when in fact he is twisting the discussion so as to lead to a...
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“I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.”
- Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
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“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
- James Joyce
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“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.”
- Francis Bacon
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“So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be.”
- Tennyson, 1850
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“Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.”
- Francis Bacon
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“You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.”
- Leo Tolstoy
March 2012
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“A boy in the bush is worth two in the hand.”
- Morrissey
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“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
- Mae West, 1934
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“The gaze of dogs who don’t understand and who don’t know that they may be right not to understand.”
- Italo Calvino, 1957
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“There’s more besides joyrides Little house in the countryside Understand, learn to demand Compromise, sometimes lie Get the Balance right”
- Martin L. Gore
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“We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
- Thomas Jefferson, 1776
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“There is no basis in international law for preventative, rather than pre-emptive, war.”
- Michael Clarke, director of the British defence establishment’s Royal United Services Institute
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“Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.”
- Robert Southey, 1810
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“If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, ‘a lie will go round the world while truth is putting its boots on.”
- C.H. Spurgeon, 1859
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“Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.”
- Tennyson, The Princess, 1847
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“I learned that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is to go forward. Life really is a one-way street.”
- Agatha Christie
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“Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.”
- Francis Bacon
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“There has never been a time when you and I and the kings gathered here have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time ofdeath, he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.”
- Bhagavad-Gita
February 2012
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“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
- Einstein
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“Natural forces within us are the true healers·”
- Hippocrates
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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
- Marcus Aurelius
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“The man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
- Oscar Wilde
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“If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
- Buddha
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
- Aristotle
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“Perfection is man’s ultimate illusion. It simply doesn’t exist in the universe. There is no perfection. It’s really the world’s greatest con game; it promises riches and delivers misery. The harder you strive for perfection, the worse your disappointment will become because it’s only an abstraction, a concept that doesn’t fit reality. Everything can be...
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“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
January 2012
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“Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.”
- King Soloman
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“Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it.”
- Rene Descartes