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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. — Seneca the Younger
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of… — Mark Twain
In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat. — Eric Hoffer
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like… — Horace
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry… — Swami Vivekananda
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by… — Baron d'Holbach
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know. — Alexander Pope
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception… — George Santayana
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that. — Thomas Carlyle
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I… — Clyde Tombaugh
Swipe from the best, then adapt. — Tom Peters
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. — Carl Jung
Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys. — Sam Walton
Microsoft is always two years away from failure. — Bill Gates
Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair. — Terence McKenna
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. — Robert Graves
I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One… — Keith Richards
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction. — Saadi
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may… — Bertrand Russell
My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors. — William Shakespeare
It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes… — Martin Luther

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