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Chapter 2
Friedrich Nietzsche
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. [1]
William Wordsworth
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. [2]
Samuel Beckett
We are all born mad. Some remain so. [3]
Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. [4]
Umberto Eco
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. [5]
John Ruskin
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. [6]
Gabriel García Márquez
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. [7]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. [8]
Bill Maher
We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities. [9]
Marcel Proust
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. [10]
Christopher Hitchens
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' [11]
John Dewey
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. [12]
Flannery O'Connor
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. [13]
Geoffrey Chaucer
Time and tide wait for no man. [14]
J.M. Barrie
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. [15]
Alfred Tennyson
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die. [16]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. [17]
Adolf Hitler
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. [18]
Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. [19]
Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. [20]
Henry James
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have. [21]
Adam Smith
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. [22]
Joe Rogan
The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. [23]
Thomas Sowell
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. [24]
Charles Darwin
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. [25]
Richard Dawkins
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. [26]
Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. [27]
Emil Cioran
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. [28]
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. [29]
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. [30]
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. [31]
E.O. Wilson
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. [32]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. [33]
John Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. [34]
Eudora Welty
Never think you've seen the last of anything. [35]
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. [36]
Richard Feynman
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. [37]
James Joyce
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. [38]
Albert Camus
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. [39]
William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. [40]
Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. [41]
George W. Bush
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. [42]
Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. [43]
John Steinbeck
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. [44]
Virginia Woolf
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. [45]
James Madison
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. [46]
Thomas Paine
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. [47]
Henri Poincare
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. [48]
Jane Austen
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. [49]
William F. Buckley Jr.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. [50]
Stephen Hawking
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. [51]
Walt Whitman
I exist as I am, that is enough. [52]
Arthur Conan Doyle
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be. [53]
John Milton
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. [54]
Immanuel Kant
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. [55]
Jonathan Swift
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. [56]
Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves. [57]
Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. [58]
Franz Kafka
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. [59]
Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. [60]
Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. [61]
Denis Diderot
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to. [62]
Noam Chomsky
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune. [63]
Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. [64]
Arthur Schopenhauer
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death. [65]
Frederick the Great
Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. [66]
Gustave Flaubert
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. [67]
Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. [68]
Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. [69]
David Hume
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. [70]
John Berger
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. [71]
James Anthony Froude
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. [72]
André Malraux
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. [73]
André Gide
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. [74]
Douglas Adams
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. [75]
George Eliot
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. [76]
Toni Morrison
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. [77]
George Orwell
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. [78]
William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. [79]
Elizabeth I of England
All my possessions for a moment of time. [80]
Jack Kerouac
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. [81]
Baruch Spinoza
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. [82]
John Stuart Mill
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. [83]
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. [84]
Isaac Newton
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. [85]
Charles Dickens
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. [86]
José Saramago
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. [87]
William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. [88]
Dante Alighieri
A great flame follows a little spark. [89]
George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. [90]
In Order of Appearance
Each chapter features the same authors in the same order! Different quotes.
Friedrich Nietzsche - 12 ↩︎
William Wordsworth - 63 ↩︎
Samuel Beckett - 28 ↩︎
Jean-Paul Sartre - 202 ↩︎
Umberto Eco - 390 ↩︎
John Ruskin - 212 ↩︎
Gabriel García Márquez - 24 ↩︎
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 13 ↩︎
Bill Maher - 11 ↩︎
Marcel Proust - 54 ↩︎
John Dewey - 47 ↩︎
Flannery O'Connor - 154 ↩︎
Geoffrey Chaucer - 162 ↩︎
J.M. Barrie - 186 ↩︎
Alfred Tennyson - 73 ↩︎
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 205 ↩︎
Adolf Hitler - 65 ↩︎
Leo Tolstoy - 25 ↩︎
Oscar Wilde - 56 ↩︎
Henry James - 181 ↩︎
Adam Smith - 19 ↩︎
Thomas Sowell - 383 ↩︎
Charles Darwin - 114 ↩︎
Richard Dawkins - 2 ↩︎
Henry David Thoreau - 180 ↩︎
Emil Cioran - 146 ↩︎
Ernest Hemingway - 22 ↩︎
Winston Churchill - 400 ↩︎
Albert Einstein - 69 ↩︎
E.O. Wilson - 142 ↩︎
John Locke - 49 ↩︎
Eudora Welty - 150 ↩︎
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 152 ↩︎
Richard Feynman - 58 ↩︎
James Joyce - 14 ↩︎
Albert Camus - 9 ↩︎
Victor Hugo - 60 ↩︎
George W. Bush - 167 ↩︎
Gore Vidal - 170 ↩︎
John Steinbeck - 215 ↩︎
Virginia Woolf - 393 ↩︎
James Madison - 193 ↩︎
Thomas Paine - 382 ↩︎
Henri Poincare - 179 ↩︎
Jane Austen - 44 ↩︎
William F. Buckley Jr. - 397 ↩︎
Stephen Hawking - 59 ↩︎
Walt Whitman - 394 ↩︎
Arthur Conan Doyle - 88 ↩︎
John Milton - 50 ↩︎
Immanuel Kant - 42 ↩︎
Jonathan Swift - 52 ↩︎
Mark Twain - 26 ↩︎
Franz Kafka - 23 ↩︎
Carl Sagan - 20 ↩︎
Denis Diderot - 36 ↩︎
Noam Chomsky - 4 ↩︎
Benjamin Franklin - 99 ↩︎
Arthur Schopenhauer - 91 ↩︎
Frederick the Great - 158 ↩︎
Gustave Flaubert - 175 ↩︎
Bertrand Russell - 10 ↩︎
Edgar Allan Poe - 21 ↩︎
David Hume - 35 ↩︎
John Berger - 206 ↩︎
James Anthony Froude - 190 ↩︎
André Malraux - 76 ↩︎
André Gide - 75 ↩︎
Douglas Adams - 37 ↩︎
George Eliot - 164 ↩︎
Toni Morrison - 387 ↩︎
George Orwell - 40 ↩︎
William Faulkner - 62 ↩︎
Elizabeth I of England - 145 ↩︎
Jack Kerouac - 187 ↩︎
Baruch Spinoza - 98 ↩︎
John Stuart Mill - 51 ↩︎
Ludwig Wittgenstein - 53 ↩︎
Isaac Newton - 43 ↩︎
Charles Dickens - 6 ↩︎
José Saramago - 219 ↩︎
William James - 398 ↩︎
Dante Alighieri - 127 ↩︎
George Bernard Shaw - 163 ↩︎