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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs,…
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also…
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,…
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the…
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their…
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of…
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant…
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the…
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the…
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience…
— Albert Einstein
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In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense…
— Sigmund Freud
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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and…
— Al-Ghazali
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It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are,…
— Albert Einstein
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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
— George Meredith
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In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
— John Diefenbaker
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing…
— Marquis de Sade
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But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.
— Stephen Mitchell
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Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out…
— Blaise Cendrars
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The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching…
— Max Stirner
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Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the…
— Max Stirner
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