Quotes Worth Reading

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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Gk Chesterton

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When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

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But what is grief, if not love persevering?

Vision, Wandavision

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“Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

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“What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.” - Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

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“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.” - Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

Hunter S. Thompson

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“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”

— Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia (via mythologyofblue)

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There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Charles Darwin (via syntheticphilosophy)

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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards victory.

Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (via syntheticphilosophy)

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The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of millions is a statistic.

Leonard Lyons

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There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

Voltaire, Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance (via philosophybits)

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There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

John Locke (via headlesssamurai)

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Health is a crown the healthy wear on their heads, that only the sick can see.

Imam Shafi’i

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I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Claude Monet (via quotemadness)

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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Henry David Thoreau

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The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank