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- Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
- John Viscount Morley
- Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
- Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Doctor Zhivago
- Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
- John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
- So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
- Krishnamurti
- The course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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