Miscellaneous Quotations

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"There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

-Oscar Wilde

"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."

-Herbert Spencer

"When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities."

-Matt Groening

"The market price of every particular commodity is regulated by the proportion between the quantity which is actually brought to market, and the demand of those who are willing to pay."

-Adam Smith

"For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives."

-Plato

"Philosophy should be founded on detailed, positive knowledge of actual processes in the world and not on abstract assessments of human capacities."

-Nancy Cartwright

"Nationalism is an infantile disease."

-Albert Einstein

"...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything--that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it--and its choice to be there--are gone."

-Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane

"When a habit begins to cost money it is called a hobby."

-unknown

"Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence."

-unknown

"I distrust all systematisers, and avoid them. The will to a system shows a lack of honesty."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"For people who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like."

-Muriel Spark

"Contentment preserves one even from catching cold. Has a woman o knew that she was well-dressed ever caught cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag to her back."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself."

-A. H. Weiler

"People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share,
and no one dare disturb the Sound of Silence."

-Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds of Silence

"Conservation is humanity caring for the future."

-Nancy Newhall

"And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

-Shakespeare

"The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them."

-Henry David Thoreau

"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."

-Alan Paton

"Aristotle says that in order to live alone, a man must be either an animal or a god. The third alternative is lacking: a man must be both--a philosopher."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing."

-Lord Chesterfield

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."

-Ayn Rand

"Good questions outrank easy answers."

-Paul A. Samuelson

"Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."

-James Bryce

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."

-Demosthenes

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."

-Jules Renard

"One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star."

-G. K. Chesterton

"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."

-E. M. Forster

"If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be sought out, and difficult."

-Heraclitus

"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."

-unknown

"A dry soul is wisest and best."

-Heraclitus

"In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"What? Art thou looking for something? Thou wouldst fain multiply thyself tenfold, a hundredfold? Thou seekest followers? Seek ciphers!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; Neither a follower nor a leader be."

-unknown

"To change and to change for the better are two different things."

-German proverb