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- What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
- A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention…
- If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
- What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
- Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
- We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
- We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
- Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to…
- If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I…
- The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice…
- Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
- For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
- Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
- Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret…
- Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
- Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
- If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
- It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not…
- What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness…
- Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all…
- Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice…
- Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
- Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
- There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
- Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong