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Chapter 8
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no facts, only interpretations. [1]
William Wordsworth
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. [2]
Samuel Beckett
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. [3]
Jean-Paul Sartre
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. [4]
Umberto Eco
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. [5]
John Ruskin
Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. [6]
Gabriel García Márquez
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. [7]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. [8]
Bill Maher
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. [9]
Marcel Proust
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. [10]
Christopher Hitchens
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. [11]
John Dewey
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. [12]
Flannery O'Connor
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. [13]
Geoffrey Chaucer
The guilty think all talk is of themselves. [14]
J.M. Barrie
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. [15]
Alfred Tennyson
I am a part of all that I have met. [16]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. [17]
Adolf Hitler
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. [18]
Leo Tolstoy
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. [19]
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. [20]
Henry James
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? [21]
Adam Smith
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. [22]
Joe Rogan
I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion. [23]
Thomas Sowell
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. [24]
Charles Darwin
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. [25]
Richard Dawkins
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. [26]
Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. [27]
Emil Cioran
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. [28]
Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. [29]
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen [30]
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. [31]
E.O. Wilson
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. [32]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. [33]
John Locke
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. [34]
Eudora Welty
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. [35]
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. [36]
Richard Feynman
What I cannot create, I do not understand. [37]
James Joyce
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance. [38]
Albert Camus
I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day. [39]
William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. [40]
Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. [41]
George W. Bush
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? [42]
Gore Vidal
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. [43]
John Steinbeck
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. [44]
Virginia Woolf
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. [45]
James Madison
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. [46]
Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. [47]
Henri Poincare
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [48]
Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. [49]
William F. Buckley Jr.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. [50]
Stephen Hawking
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. [51]
Walt Whitman
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. [52]
Arthur Conan Doyle
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. [53]
John Milton
They also serve who only stand and wait. [54]
Immanuel Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. [55]
Jonathan Swift
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. [56]
Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. [57]
Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. [58]
Franz Kafka
You are free, and that is why you are lost. [59]
Carl Sagan
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. [60]
Voltaire
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. [61]
Denis Diderot
The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. [62]
Noam Chomsky
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. [63]
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not. [64]
Arthur Schopenhauer
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. [65]
Frederick the Great
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. [66]
Gustave Flaubert
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. [67]
Bertrand Russell
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [68]
Edgar Allan Poe
We loved with a love that was more than love. [69]
David Hume
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. [70]
John Berger
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. [71]
James Anthony Froude
Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. [72]
André Malraux
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. [73]
André Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. [74]
Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. [75]
George Eliot
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. [76]
Toni Morrison
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. [77]
George Orwell
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. [78]
William Faulkner
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. [79]
Elizabeth I of England
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. [80]
Jack Kerouac
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. [81]
Baruch Spinoza
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. [82]
John Stuart Mill
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. [83]
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. [84]
Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. [85]
Charles Dickens
Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. [86]
José Saramago
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts. [87]
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. [88]
Dante Alighieri
The Love that moves the sun and the other stars. [89]
George Bernard Shaw
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. [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 ↩︎