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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9d8741b | How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 9182712 | We find little in a book but what we put there,' Joseph Joubert said. 'But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 4b40834 | Yet apes are intelligent, inquisitive, affectionate and sociable, with capacities for suffering and grief that match our own, and with a grave beauty and dignity which recalls Schopenhauer's remark that 'There is one respect in which brutes show real wisdom when compared to us - I mean their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 44629e9 | Govern a family as you would cook a small fish. CHINESE PROVERB | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 02dd68d | When a lady condescends to apologize, there is no keeping one's anger. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 7aa8f72 | Obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate'. BERTRAND RUSSELL | A.C. Grayling | ||
| c3379f3 | There are several kinds of poverty. Third-and first-world poverty are entirely different in character because of the great difference in their historical and economic settings. The gruel-ling problems faced by the third world's poor relate to bare survival, to the basic task of getting water and food. Their plight is often further complicated by war, corruption, flood or drought. Third-world poverty is life on the margins of existence, a to.. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 9349534 | The rich cannot eat money,' dryly observes a Russian proverb, 'so it's just as well that there are poor folk to grow their food. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| e6ab40f | The rich man may never get into heaven,' remarked Alexander Chase, 'but the poor are already serving their term in hell. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| b0b4700 | Speciesism Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. HENRY BESTON | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 8add4c2 | The trouble with the profit system has always been that it is highly unprofitable to most people. E. B. WHITE | A.C. Grayling | ||
| dff0e58 | Hatred is a sentiment that leads to the extinction of values. ORTEGA Y GASSET | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 404d7f6 | In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. FRANCIS BACON | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 75bab55 | Fear begets intolerance, and intolerance begets fear: the cycle is a vicious one. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 3274e89 | Faith is what I die for, dogma is what I kill for,' as the saying has it; and the trouble is that all faith is based on dogma. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| abb3d38 | Hope If it were not for hope, the heart would break. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 39575d1 | Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope,' Petronius remarked. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 19b32a2 | Hope is the worst of evils,' Nietzsche famously said, 'for it prolongs the torment of man. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| a1728db | Hope is a virtue independently of its realisations; it is an intrinsic value, an end in itself, allied to courage and imagination, a positive attitude full of possibility and aspiration. For that reason you discover more about a person when you learn about his hopes than when you count his achievements, for the best of what we are lies in what we hope to be. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 883039a | Per ardua ad astra. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 005051d | As Ruskin said, it is not what we get but what we become by our endeavours that makes them worthwhile. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| b689ad6 | Prudence He does well who moors his boat with two anchors. PUBLILIUS SYRUS | A.C. Grayling | ||
| d3c98e0 | Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head. THOREAU | A.C. Grayling | ||
| c50ea22 | Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, 'No one tests the depth of a river with both feet. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 5fb6808 | All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness,' Tennessee Williams observed. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 4fd779c | One frankness invites a reciprocal frankness, and draws forth discoveries, like wine and love,' wrote Montaigne. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 45a2c32 | The meaning of things lies not in things themselves, but in out attitudes to them.' ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY | A.C. Grayling | ||
| d82d428 | In the preface to his little book of miscellaneous essays called Guesses at Truth, the nineteenth-century cleric Julius Hare wrote, 'I here present you with a few suggestions ... little more than glimmerings, I had almost said dreams, of thought ... If I am addressing one of that numerous class who read to be told what to think, let me advise you to meddle with this book no further. You wish to buy a house ready furnished; do not come to lo.. | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 871f157 | Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done as fear of what might happen to us because of it. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 8a38985 | Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. HERMAN MELVILLE | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 254fae3 | Civility The knowledge of courtesy is a very necessary study; like grace and beauty, it breeds mutual liking. MONTAIGNE | A.C. Grayling | ||
| 7e486ac | A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine. | Anne Brontë | ||
| 5793fab | Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is. ' 'Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality,' Mili remarked. 'That will happen only when you brin.. | Norton Juster | ||
| af1ed42 | The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have | Norton Juster | ||
| 49871ab | Being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are? it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't--and I don't care at all about where I'm not. - Alec | Norton Juster | ||
| cd99e01 | For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many. | Norton Juster | ||
| db4912e | Why not take a few pounds of 'happys'?" advised the salesman. "They're much more practical--and very useful for Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, happy days, and happy-go-lucky." | Norton Juster | ||
| a555a75 | For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." - Which Macabre" -- | Norton Juster | ||
| 2717f82 | You're ... in ... the ... Dol ... drums," wailed a voice that sounded far away." | Norton Juster | ||
| 59801b5 | For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." - Which Macabre" | children-s-literature | Norton Juster | |
| c680e80 | Slowly at first, and then in a rush, more people came to settle here and bought with them new ways and new sounds, some very beautiful and some less so. But everyone was so busy with the things that had to be don that they scarcely had time to listen at all. And, as you know, a sound which is not heard disappears forever and is not to be found again. People laughed less and grumbled more, sang less and shouted more, and the sounds they mad.. | Norton Juster | ||
| 37ccb5d | Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right. | Norton Juster | ||
| d31dd39 | Before long they saw in the distance the towers and flags of Dictionopolis sparkling in the sunshine, and in a few moments they reached the great wall and stood at the gateway to the city. "A-H-H-H-R-R-E-M-M," roared the gateman, clearing his throat and snapping smartly to attention. "This is Dictionopolis, a happy kingdom, advantageously located in the Foothills of Confusion and caressed by gentle breezes from the Sea of Knowledge. Today, .. | Norton Juster | ||
| a6d580f | We're not interested in making sense; it's not our job. | Norton Juster |