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Chapter 10
Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. [1]
William Wordsworth
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. [2]
Samuel Beckett
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. [3]
Jean-Paul Satre
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. [4]
Umberto Eco
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. [5]
John Ruskin
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. [6]
Gabriel García Márquez
He who awaits much can expect little. [7]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. [8]
Bill Maher
I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. [9]
Marcel Proust
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. [10]
Christopher Hitchens
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. [11]
John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. [12]
Flannery O'Connor
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. [13]
Geoffrey Chaucer
People can die of mere imagination. [14]
J.M. Barrie
Always be a little kinder than necessary. [15]
Alfred Tennyson
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. [16]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. [17]
Adolf Hitler
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. [18]
Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be. [19]
Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. [20]
Henry James
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. [21]
Adam Smith
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. [22]
Joe Rogan
Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD. [23]
Thomas Sowell
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. [24]
Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. [25]
Richard Dawkins
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. [26]
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. [27]
Emil Cioran
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. [28]
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. [29]
Winston Churchill
If you're going through hell, keep going. [30]
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. [31]
E.O. Wilson
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. [32]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. [33]
John Locke
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. [34]
Eudora Welty
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. [35]
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. [36]
Richard Feynman
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. [37]
James Joyce
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. [38]
Albert Camus
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. [39]
William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. [40]
Victor Hugo
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. [41]
George W. Bush
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. [42]
Gore Vidal
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. [43]
John Steinbeck
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. [44]
Virginia Woolf
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. [45]
James Madison
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. [46]
Thomas Paine
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. [47]
Henri Poincare
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. [48]
Jane Austen
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. [49]
William F. Buckley Jr.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. [50]
Stephen Hawking
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. [51]
Walt Whitman
And your very flesh shall be a great poem. [52]
Arthur Conan Doyle
I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! [53]
John Milton
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. [54]
Immanuel Kant
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. [55]
Jonathan Swift
May you live all the days of your life. [56]
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. [57]
Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. [58]
Franz Kafka
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. [59]
Carl Sagan
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. [60]
Voltaire
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. [61]
Denis Diderot
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. [62]
Noam Chomsky
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. [63]
Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. [64]
Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [65]
Frederick the Great
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. [66]
Gustave Flaubert
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. [67]
Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. [68]
Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. [69]
David Hume
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. [70]
John Berger
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. [71]
James Anthony Froude
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. [72]
André Malraux
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. [73]
André Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. [74]
Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. [75]
George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. [76]
Toni Morrison
She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. [77]
George Orwell
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. [78]
William Faulkner
- 62 ↩
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. [79]
Elizabeth I of England
- 145 ↩
To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it. [80]
Jack Kerouac
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. [81]
Baruch Spinoza
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. [82]
John Stuart Mill
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. [83]
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The human body is the best picture of the human soul. [84]
Isaac Newton
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. [85]
Charles Dickens
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. [86]
José Saramago
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. [87]
William James
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. [88]
Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. [89]
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. [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 Satre - 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 ↩︎