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I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in… — Henry David Thoreau
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and… — Alan Watts
One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance.… — Stanley Kubrick
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is… — Terry Tempest Williams
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to… — David Brin
Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are… — Michel Foucault
In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We… — Sam Harris
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our… — Julio Cortazar
You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your… — Richard P. Feynman
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… — Walter Mosley
And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming.… — Nicholas Sparks
It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on… — Andre Breton
Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre. — Witold Gombrowicz
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms… — Samuel Johnson
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and… — Jasper Fforde
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly… — Jane Austen
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with… — Terence McKenna
Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost… — Tonya Hurley
Grab some caviar from the kitchen. You wouldn't believe the muck they feed us in Bartleby's for ten thousand a term. — Eoin Colfer

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