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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriousl — Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
I am one thing, my writings are another. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them — Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. — Edith Södergran
I think, therefore I'll think. — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just — Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right fr — James Crumley
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. — Voltaire
As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To g — Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. — Henri Bergson
The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frédéric Bastiat
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they r — Emil M. Cioran
Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scar — Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes t — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. — René Descartes
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree t — Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanit — Friedrich Nietzsche
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than — Isaac Asimov
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe — Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination