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Chapter 6
Friedrich Nietzsche
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. [1]
William Wordsworth
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. [2]
Samuel Beckett
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. [3]
Jean-Paul Sartre
Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. [4]
Umberto Eco
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. [5]
John Ruskin
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. [6]
Gabriel García Márquez
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. [7]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To live without Hope is to Cease to live. [8]
Bill Maher
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. [9]
Marcel Proust
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. [10]
Christopher Hitchens
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. [11]
John Dewey
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. [12]
Flannery O'Connor
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. [13]
Geoffrey Chaucer
Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was. [14]
J.M. Barrie
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. [15]
Alfred Tennyson
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever. [16]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. [17]
Adolf Hitler
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. [18]
Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. [19]
Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. [20]
Henry James
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? [21]
Adam Smith
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. [22]
Joe Rogan
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh. [23]
Thomas Sowell
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. [24]
Charles Darwin
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. [25]
Richard Dawkins
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. [26]
Henry David Thoreau
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. [27]
Emil Cioran
Word — that invisible dagger. [28]
Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. [29]
Winston Churchill
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. [30]
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. [31]
E.O. Wilson
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. [32]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day. [33]
John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. [34]
Eudora Welty
Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations. [35]
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. [36]
Richard Feynman
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. [37]
James Joyce
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. [38]
Albert Camus
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. [39]
William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. [40]
Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. [41]
George W. Bush
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. [42]
Gore Vidal
Never have children, only grandchildren. [43]
John Steinbeck
No one wants advice - only corroboration. [44]
Virginia Woolf
Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. [45]
James Madison
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. [46]
Thomas Paine
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. [47]
Henri Poincare
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. [48]
Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? [49]
William F. Buckley Jr.
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out. [50]
Stephen Hawking
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. [51]
Walt Whitman
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. [52]
Arthur Conan Doyle
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. [53]
John Milton
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. [54]
Immanuel Kant
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. [55]
Jonathan Swift
No wise man ever wished to be younger. [56]
Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. [57]
Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. [58]
Franz Kafka
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. [59]
Carl Sagan
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. [60]
Voltaire
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. [61]
Denis Diderot
Gaiety — a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. [62]
Noam Chomsky
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. [63]
Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. [64]
Arthur Schopenhauer
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. [65]
Frederick the Great
My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please. [66]
Gustave Flaubert
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him. [67]
Bertrand Russell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. [68]
Edgar Allan Poe
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. [69]
David Hume
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. [70]
John Berger
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream. [71]
James Anthony Froude
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self. [72]
André Malraux
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. [73]
André Gide
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. [74]
Douglas Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others… [75]
George Eliot
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. [76]
Toni Morrison
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. [77]
George Orwell
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. [78]
William Faulkner
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. [79]
Elizabeth I of England
I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman. [80]
Jack Kerouac
My witness is the empty sky. [81]
Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. [82]
John Stuart Mill
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. [83]
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. [84]
Isaac Newton
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. [85]
Charles Dickens
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. [86]
José Saramago
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. [87]
William James
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. [88]
Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here! [89]
George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. [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 ↩︎