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Chapter 5
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake. [1]
William Wordsworth
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. [2]
Samuel Beckett
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. [3]
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. [4]
Umberto Eco
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. [5]
John Ruskin
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. [6]
Gabriel García Márquez
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. [7]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. [8]
Bill Maher
Men are only as loyal as their options. [9]
Marcel Proust
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. [10]
Christopher Hitchens
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. [11]
John Dewey
We only think when we are confronted with problems. [12]
Flannery O'Connor
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. [13]
Geoffrey Chaucer
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. [14]
J.M. Barrie
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. [15]
Alfred Tennyson
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. [16]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. [17]
Adolf Hitler
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. [18]
Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. [19]
Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. [20]
Henry James
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. [21]
Adam Smith
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. [22]
Joe Rogan
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends. [23]
Thomas Sowell
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. [24]
Charles Darwin
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. [25]
Richard Dawkins
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. [26]
Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. [27]
Emil Cioran
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. [28]
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure. [29]
Winston Churchill
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. [30]
Albert Einstein
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. [31]
E.O. Wilson
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. [32]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. [33]
John Locke
What worries you, masters you. [34]
Eudora Welty
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. [35]
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. [36]
Richard Feynman
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. [37]
James Joyce
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. [38]
Albert Camus
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. [39]
William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on. [40]
Victor Hugo
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. [41]
George W. Bush
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. [42]
Gore Vidal
President. One hopes it is the same half. [43]
John Steinbeck
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. [44]
Virginia Woolf
The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. [45]
James Madison
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. [46]
Thomas Paine
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. [47]
Henri Poincare
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. [48]
Jane Austen
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. [49]
William F. Buckley Jr.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. [50]
Stephen Hawking
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers. [51]
Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself. [52]
Arthur Conan Doyle
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. [53]
John Milton
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. [54]
Immanuel Kant
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. [55]
Jonathan Swift
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. [56]
Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. [57]
Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. [58]
Franz Kafka
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. [59]
Carl Sagan
We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. [60]
Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. [61]
Denis Diderot
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. [62]
Noam Chomsky
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. [63]
Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better than well said. [64]
Arthur Schopenhauer
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. [65]
Frederick the Great
Rogues, would you live forever? [66]
Gustave Flaubert
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. [67]
Bertrand Russell
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. [68]
Edgar Allan Poe
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. [69]
David Hume
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. [70]
John Berger
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. [71]
James Anthony Froude
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. [72]
André Malraux
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. [73]
André Gide
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. [74]
Douglas Adams
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. [75]
George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. [76]
Toni Morrison
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. [77]
George Orwell
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. [78]
William Faulkner
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. [79]
Elizabeth I of England
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God forgive you, but I never can. [80]
Jack Kerouac
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. [81]
Baruch Spinoza
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. [82]
John Stuart Mill
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. [83]
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. [84]
Isaac Newton
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. [85]
Charles Dickens
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. [86]
José Saramago
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. [87]
William James
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. [88]
Dante Alighieri
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. [89]
George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. [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 ↩︎