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- Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
- A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be…
- There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
- Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
- Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it…
- Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable…
- The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes…
- A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
- Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
- Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little…
- A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So…
- The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any…
- When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
- Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?
- Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
- Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can…
- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is…
- A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask…
- There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or…
- If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.
- Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless…
- Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
- The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not…
- A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that…
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
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- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
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