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Chapter 3
Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. [1]
William Wordsworth
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. [2]
Samuel Beckett
You're on earth. There's no cure for that. [3]
Jean-Paul Sartre
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. [4]
Umberto Eco
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. [5]
John Ruskin
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. [6]
Gabriel García Márquez
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. [7]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. [8]
Bill Maher
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them. [9]
Marcel Proust
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. [10]
Christopher Hitchens
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. [11]
John Dewey
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. [12]
Flannery O'Connor
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. [13]
Geoffrey Chaucer
First he wrought, and afterward he taught. [14]
J.M. Barrie
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. [15]
Alfred Tennyson
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. [16]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. [17]
Adolf Hitler
It is not truth that matters, but victory. [18]
Leo Tolstoy
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. [19]
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. [20]
Henry James
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. [21]
Adam Smith
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. [22]
Joe Rogan
The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time. [23]
Thomas Sowell
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. [24]
Charles Darwin
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. [25]
Richard Dawkins
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. [26]
Henry David Thoreau
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. [27]
Emil Cioran
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? [28]
Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? [29]
Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. [30]
Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. [31]
E.O. Wilson
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. [32]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. [33]
John Locke
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. [34]
Eudora Welty
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others. [35]
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. [36]
Richard Feynman
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize. [37]
James Joyce
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. [38]
Albert Camus
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. [39]
William Shakespeare
Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. [40]
Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. [41]
George W. Bush
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. [42]
Gore Vidal
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. [43]
John Steinbeck
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. [44]
Virginia Woolf
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. [45]
James Madison
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. [46]
Thomas Paine
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. [47]
Henri Poincare
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. [48]
Jane Austen
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. [49]
William F. Buckley Jr.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. [50]
Stephen Hawking
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet, [51]
Walt Whitman
I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. [52]
Arthur Conan Doyle
What feeds me destroys me. [53]
John Milton
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. [54]
Immanuel Kant
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. [55]
Jonathan Swift
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. [56]
Aristotle
All men by nature desire knowledge. [57]
Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. [58]
Franz Kafka
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. [59]
Carl Sagan
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. [60]
Voltaire
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. [61]
Denis Diderot
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. [62]
Noam Chomsky
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. [63]
Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. [64]
Arthur Schopenhauer
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. [65]
Frederick the Great
If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks. [66]
Gustave Flaubert
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. [67]
Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. [68]
Edgar Allan Poe
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. [69]
David Hume
Custom is the great guide to human life. [70]
John Berger
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. [71]
James Anthony Froude
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. [72]
André Malraux
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. [73]
André Gide
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. [74]
Douglas Adams
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? [75]
George Eliot
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. [76]
Toni Morrison
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. [77]
George Orwell
Big Brother is watching you. [78]
William Faulkner
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. [79]
Elizabeth I of England
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head. [80]
Jack Kerouac
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. [81]
Baruch Spinoza
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. [82]
John Stuart Mill
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. [83]
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. [84]
Isaac Newton
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. [85]
Charles Dickens
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. [86]
José Saramago
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. [87]
William James
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. [88]
Dante Alighieri
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [89]
George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. [90]
In Order of Appearance
Each chapter features the same authors in the same order! Different quotes.
Friedrich Nietzsche - 12 ↩︎
William Wordsworth - 63 ↩︎
Samuel Beckett - 28 ↩︎
Jean-Paul Sartre - 202 ↩︎
Umberto Eco - 390 ↩︎
John Ruskin - 212 ↩︎
Gabriel García Márquez - 24 ↩︎
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 13 ↩︎
Bill Maher - 11 ↩︎
Marcel Proust - 54 ↩︎
John Dewey - 47 ↩︎
Flannery O'Connor - 154 ↩︎
Geoffrey Chaucer - 162 ↩︎
J.M. Barrie - 186 ↩︎
Alfred Tennyson - 73 ↩︎
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - 205 ↩︎
Adolf Hitler - 65 ↩︎
Leo Tolstoy - 25 ↩︎
Oscar Wilde - 56 ↩︎
Henry James - 181 ↩︎
Adam Smith - 19 ↩︎
Thomas Sowell - 383 ↩︎
Charles Darwin - 114 ↩︎
Richard Dawkins - 2 ↩︎
Henry David Thoreau - 180 ↩︎
Emil Cioran - 146 ↩︎
Ernest Hemingway - 22 ↩︎
Winston Churchill - 400 ↩︎
Albert Einstein - 69 ↩︎
E.O. Wilson - 142 ↩︎
John Locke - 49 ↩︎
Eudora Welty - 150 ↩︎
F. Scott Fitzgerald - 152 ↩︎
Richard Feynman - 58 ↩︎
James Joyce - 14 ↩︎
Albert Camus - 9 ↩︎
Victor Hugo - 60 ↩︎
George W. Bush - 167 ↩︎
Gore Vidal - 170 ↩︎
John Steinbeck - 215 ↩︎
Virginia Woolf - 393 ↩︎
James Madison - 193 ↩︎
Thomas Paine - 382 ↩︎
Henri Poincare - 179 ↩︎
Jane Austen - 44 ↩︎
William F. Buckley Jr. - 397 ↩︎
Stephen Hawking - 59 ↩︎
Walt Whitman - 394 ↩︎
Arthur Conan Doyle - 88 ↩︎
John Milton - 50 ↩︎
Immanuel Kant - 42 ↩︎
Jonathan Swift - 52 ↩︎
Mark Twain - 26 ↩︎
Franz Kafka - 23 ↩︎
Carl Sagan - 20 ↩︎
Denis Diderot - 36 ↩︎
Noam Chomsky - 4 ↩︎
Benjamin Franklin - 99 ↩︎
Arthur Schopenhauer - 91 ↩︎
Frederick the Great - 158 ↩︎
Gustave Flaubert - 175 ↩︎
Bertrand Russell - 10 ↩︎
Edgar Allan Poe - 21 ↩︎
David Hume - 35 ↩︎
John Berger - 206 ↩︎
James Anthony Froude - 190 ↩︎
André Malraux - 76 ↩︎
André Gide - 75 ↩︎
Douglas Adams - 37 ↩︎
George Eliot - 164 ↩︎
Toni Morrison - 387 ↩︎
George Orwell - 40 ↩︎
William Faulkner - 62 ↩︎
Elizabeth I of England - 145 ↩︎
Jack Kerouac - 187 ↩︎
Baruch Spinoza - 98 ↩︎
John Stuart Mill - 51 ↩︎
Ludwig Wittgenstein - 53 ↩︎
Isaac Newton - 43 ↩︎
Charles Dickens - 6 ↩︎
José Saramago - 219 ↩︎
William James - 398 ↩︎
Dante Alighieri - 127 ↩︎
George Bernard Shaw - 163 ↩︎