Quotes

A longer than average selection this time but I think there’s a lot of good stuff here:

1. In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. (probably) Stanisław Jerzy Lec

2. To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get. Celia Green

4. When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share. -ll-

5. Whoever says that he “belongs to his time” is only saying that he agrees with the largest number of fools at that moment. Nicolás Gómez Dávila

6. To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more. -ll-

7. The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. Aristotle

8. Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. -ll-

9. The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me. W. H. Auden

10. Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is. -ll-

11. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche

12. One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. -ll-

13. We are always in our own company. -ll-

14. Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well. Garry Kasparov

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