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- Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
- Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it…
- In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down…
- I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
- We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we…
- All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
- Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his…
- O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
- ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old…
- I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.
- Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.
- One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves.…
- Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.
- The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our…
- In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about…
- In politics continental Europe was infantile - horrifying. What America lacked, for all its political stability, was the capacity to enjoy intellectual pleasures as though…
- All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy?…
- If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
- It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
- Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
- The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it —…
- Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out—a long schedule like a federal document, only it's your…
- Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
- I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle