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Bon Mots
- To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception. It is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.replica watches
--Kirkegaard
- Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the rooted trouble of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
--From Shakespeare's MacBeth
- Work has a greater effect than any other technique of living in the direction of binding the individual most closely to reality; in his work, at least, he is securely attached to a part of reality, the human community. --Sigmund Freud--- On the value of Work.
- I believe there are worlds within each of us, and it is an obligation in every life to learn more of those worlds, and to evolve in a better, more generous and loving way from that knowledge.
--Martin C. Rosner M.D.
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me. --W.H. Auden
- The civilization that we are seeking to establish is the civilization of the dialog. This is the only civilization in which a free person would care to live... it assumes the object of the intellect is to gain the truth, and though the whole truth may never be wholly discoverable, the way to progress toward it is through a free exchange of ideas. It insists upon reason, upon independence, and upon communication. --The Hutchins Plan University of Chicago
- Without long and hard discipline we should lack all those achievements for whose sake life on earth is whorthwhile--- virftue, art, music, dance, reason, spirituality. --Nietzsche
- Such a spirit who has become free stands amid the cosmos with a joyous and trusting fatalism... he does not negate anymore. Such a faith is the highest of all possible faiths: I have baptized it with the name of Dionysius. --Nietzsche
- Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined oneself over poetry is an honour.
--Oscar Wilde
- Understanding of a human being can never be complete, but as it grows toward completeness, it becomes love, inevitably.http://www.ukwatches.cn/ --
- Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.
--Niels Bohr
- SOCRATES
No mistake is done unknowingly.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
BLOOM
The examined life is almost unbearable.
--Socrates Bloom
- The whole content of my being shrieks in contradiction against itself. --Kirkegaard
- The Ubermensch is the man who has overcome himself; the passionate man who is master of his passions, the creator who excels in both passion and reason and is able to employ his own powers creatively. --Nietzsche
- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. --Sir Isaac Newton
- Unless people are more than commonly disagreeable, it is my foolish habit to contract a kindness for them.
He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.
Whenever there is a heart and an intellect, the disease of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
- In the time of your life, live--- so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world,www.guccistyle.me but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. --William Saroyan
- Try to understand, and not to judge.
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- To change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before. --Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, VIII, 16
- Side by side with the exigencies of life, love is the great educator. --Sigmund Freud on Love
- I have toyed with an idea---the idea that although a man's life is compounded of thousands and thousands of moments and days, those many instants and those many days may be reduced to a single one: the moment when a man knows who he is, when he sees himself face-to-face.
--Jorge Luis Borges
- ETIQUETTE
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- DESIDERATA
Go placidly amid the noise & haste & remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.
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Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain & bitter; for always there will be greater & lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue & loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors & aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
-- FOUND IN OLD SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH, BALTIMORE; 1692
- Everything isn't hopeless. That's not what Spinoza says. On the contrary he specifically stresses the idea of human freedom. Replica watches We're free to recognize Necessity, and to learn to accept calmly, even lovingly, the powerful, unspoken laws underlying the inevitable.
--AMOS OZ ON SPINOZA
- He loved as in our age
People already do no longer;
As only the wild soul of a poet
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--ABOUT PUSHKIN
- Work has a great effect than any other technique of living in the direction of binding the individual most closely to reality; in his work, at least, he is securely attached to a part of reality, the human community.
--SIGMUND FREUD (on the value of work)
- But let us not destroy the scaffold until we have raised the building.
--SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (1768) (a painter)
- The highest courage is to stake everything on a premise that you know tomorrow's evidence may disprove.
--OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
- Everyone wants to know; no one wants to pay the price.
--JUVENAL
- That's where my standards of morality come from--- fear. And not only fear of God. I know how strong I am, how powerful I can be, how aggressive I can get. And I don't want a world where that kind of force can be turned against me. It frightens me. That Î's why we've all got to behave. That's the beginning of civil behavior. Fear of ourselves.
--MEL BROOKS (as the 2000 year old man)
- I know that most men--- not only those considered clever, but even those who are clever and capable of understanding the most difficult scientific, mathematical or philosophical problems--- can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth, if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty--- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.
Leo Tolstoy 1898
--Tolstoy
- “It is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressible, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason,”
--Charles Darwin in "The Descent of Man."
- "The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the
peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions."
--Leo Tolstoy
- “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” We all do, over and over again, some more prolifically than others.
--Samuel Beckett
- "The art of taxation is to pluck the most feathers from the goose with the least amount of squawking" audemars piguet replica watches
--Jean Baptiste Colbert
- I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. --Joel Baron
- It is said that when a certain caliph was on the verge of burning the great library at Alexandria, scholars fell on their knees in front of him and begged him to relent.
"There are two kinds of books here," the caliph reportedly said. "There are those that contradict the Koran--- these are blasphemous. There are those that corroborate the Koran--- these are superfluous."
"So, burn the library." --A Certain Caliph
- Freud describes the psychoanalyst as one who
makes use of the influence which one human being exercises over another...let us say that the doctor, in his educative work, makes use of one of the components of love....
Side by side with the exigencies of life, love is the great educator; and it is by the love of those nearest him that the incomplete human being is induced to respect the decrees of necessity and to spare himself the punishment that follows any infringement of them. --Sigmund Freud
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--- the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
--Samuel Johnson (1707-1784)
- Don't look for it outside yourself.
You are the source of milk. Don't milk others!
There is a milk-fountain inside you.
Don't walk around with an empty bucket.
You have a channel into the Ocean, and yet
you ask for water from a little pool.
Beg for that love-expansion. Meditate only
on THAT. The Qur'an says,
And he is with you
(VII,4)
--Rumi
- I have toyed with an idea---the idea that although a man's life is compounded of thousands and thousands of moments and days, those many instants and those many days may be reduced to a single one: the moment when a man knows who he is, when he sees himself face-to-face.
--Jorge Luis Borges
- Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. --Dalai Lama
- Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. --Dalai Lama
- Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. --Dalai Lama
- The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth. It stimulates the heart and sharpens the faculties not of our fellow citizens alone, but of the nations of Europe and of their rulers. While dwelling with pleasing satifsfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power: that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must, in proportion to its numbers, be the most powerful nation on earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purpose of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to the ends of benificence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.
For America not to use its new and growing power was “treachery to the most sacred of trusts.”
--John Quincy Adams 1825
- The Truth:
I went to the British Museum the day after I returned from my pilgrimage, and happened to come across the vase that Keats wrote his ode about. Well, I thought, looking at the thing, so truth is not a black swan gliding, or a bunch of dancers dancing. Truth is an ugly duckling with big ears, truth is whatever it may be, and beauty is whatever it may be, and they are not the same, not at all, not even close. That urn had it all wrong. I knew that much now, and for sure. --Keats
- "It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret"
--Niccolo Machiavelli
- 1It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. www.leatherbagshop.com The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. --Theodore Roosevelt, Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
- My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
--Benjamin Disraeli
- Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!
--Golda Meir
- The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
--Calvin Trillin
- Humility is no substitute for a good personality. --Fran Lebowitz
- Don't be humble; you are not that great. --Golda Meir
- God will pardon me. It's His business. --Heinrich Heine
- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
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--Woody Allen
- Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions.
Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
--Mort Sahl
- A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
--Milton Berle
- When I bore people at a party, they think it is their fault. --Henry Kissinger
- I don't want any yes-men around me--- I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. --Sam Goldwyn
- "Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force."
--Dorothy L. Sayers
- What a man does for himself dies with him. What he does for the community lives long after him. --Theodore Roosevelt
- If the Angel deigns to visit you it is not because of your tears or your prostrations, it is because of you humble resignation to be a beginner, to begin again. --Rilke
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