Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
-Kierkegaard
The Critick
Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics – they desire our blood, not our pain.
-Nietzsche
-Nietzsche
Hope v. Despair
Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
-Elias Canetti
-Elias Canetti
Time & Energy
One of the conditions for reading what is good is that we must not read what is bad; for life is short and time and energy are limited.
-Schopenhauer
-Schopenhauer
Memoirs on the Skins of a Mole
The presence of an idea is like that of a loved one. We imagine that we shall never forget it, and that the beloved can never become indifferent to us; but out of sight, out of mind! The finest thought runs the risk of being irretrievably forgotten if it is not written down.
-Schopenhauer
-Schopenhauer
Three Educations
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
-Montesquieu
-Montesquieu
The Unthirsty
Ye can lade a man up to th’university, but ye can’t make him think.
-Finley Peter Dunne
-Finley Peter Dunne
Life & (Death)
Death is not a bad word, but a "parenthesis in eternity."
-Mike Ruppert/Joel Goldsmith
-Mike Ruppert/Joel Goldsmith
The War on Jealousy
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
-Molière
You cannot win a war on terrorism, it's like having a war on jealousy, it's an absurd notion.
-David Cross
-Molière
You cannot win a war on terrorism, it's like having a war on jealousy, it's an absurd notion.
-David Cross
The Endless Dichotomy
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too.
-Bernard Shaw
-Bernard Shaw
Happiness & Sorrow
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
-Montesquieu
-Montesquieu
'Saving A Second Ear For Truth, Later'
A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
-Marquess of Halifax
Suspicion is rather a virtue than a fault, as long as it doth like a dog that watched, and doth not bite.
-Halifax
-Marquess of Halifax
Suspicion is rather a virtue than a fault, as long as it doth like a dog that watched, and doth not bite.
-Halifax
Unquenchable Thirst
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
-Schopenhauer
-Schopenhauer
Courage in Creation
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
-Sydney Smith
-Sydney Smith
Opinions
We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care for.
-Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach
-Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach
The Wars of Old Men ... Fought by Young Men
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
-George Santayana
-George Santayana
Chewing Up the Furniture
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
-Jean de La Bruyere
-Jean de La Bruyere
Cui Bono?
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
-F. Scott Fitzerald
-F. Scott Fitzerald
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