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His Quotes by John McCarthy
- If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.
- Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
- His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
- An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice.
- Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to…
More His Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold