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Chapter 4
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. [1]
William Wordsworth
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. [2]
Samuel Beckett
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. [3]
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life begins on the other side of despair. [4]
Umberto Eco
Translation is the art of failure. [5]
John Ruskin
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. [6]
Gabriel García Márquez
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. [7]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. [8]
Bill Maher
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. [9]
Marcel Proust
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. [10]
Christopher Hitchens
Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it. [11]
John Dewey
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. [12]
Flannery O'Connor
Conviction without experience makes for harshness. [13]
Geoffrey Chaucer
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. [14]
J.M. Barrie
Life is a long lesson in humility. [15]
Alfred Tennyson
Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier. [16]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. [17]
Adolf Hitler
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. [18]
Leo Tolstoy
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. [19]
Oscar Wilde
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken [20]
Henry James
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. [21]
Adam Smith
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality... for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor. [22]
Joe Rogan
If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure. [23]
Thomas Sowell
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. [24]
Charles Darwin
I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. [25]
Richard Dawkins
The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale. [26]
Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. [27]
Emil Cioran
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. [28]
Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. [29]
Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. [30]
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. [31]
E.O. Wilson
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. [32]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I love those who yearn for the impossible. [33]
John Locke
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. [34]
Eudora Welty
To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. [35]
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. [36]
Richard Feynman
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. [37]
James Joyce
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. [38]
Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no. [39]
William Shakespeare
Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. [40]
Victor Hugo
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. [41]
George W. Bush
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. [42]
Gore Vidal
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. [43]
John Steinbeck
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. [44]
Virginia Woolf
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. [45]
James Madison
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. [46]
Thomas Paine
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. [47]
Henri Poincare
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. [48]
Jane Austen
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. [49]
William F. Buckley Jr.
The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it. [50]
Stephen Hawking
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. [51]
Walt Whitman
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, [52]
Arthur Conan Doyle
Above our life we love a steadfast friend. [53]
John Milton
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. [54]
Immanuel Kant
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. [55]
Jonathan Swift
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman. [56]
Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. [57]
Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. [58]
Franz Kafka
The meaning of life is that it stops. [59]
Carl Sagan
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. [60]
Voltaire
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. [61]
Denis Diderot
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. [62]
Noam Chomsky
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. [63]
Benjamin Franklin
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. [64]
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. [65]
Frederick the Great
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. [66]
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. [67]
Bertrand Russell
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. [68]
Edgar Allan Poe
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. [69]
David Hume
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. [70]
John Berger
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. [71]
James Anthony Froude
Human improvement is from within outward. [72]
André Malraux
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. [73]
André Gide
The color of truth is gray. [74]
Douglas Adams
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. [75]
George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. [76]
Toni Morrison
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. [77]
George Orwell
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. [78]
William Faulkner
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. [79]
Elizabeth I of England
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. [80]
Jack Kerouac
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. [81]
Baruch Spinoza
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. [82]
John Stuart Mill
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. [83]
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. [84]
Isaac Newton
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. [85]
Charles Dickens
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. [86]
José Saramago
Americans have discovered fear. [87]
William James
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. [88]
Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act. [89]
George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them. [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 ↩︎