There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer.
Pete HamillStichwörter: philosophy
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
PlatoStichwörter: philosophy
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
Blaise PascalStichwörter: philosophy
As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.
Friedrich NietzscheStichwörter: philosophy religion
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Laurence J. PeterStichwörter: humor philosophy stupidity human misattributed-einstein
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheStichwörter: wisdom life philosophy christianity god spiritual
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
Albert CamusStichwörter: intelligence philosophy intellectuals scholars
Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.
Charles BukowskiStichwörter: society philosophy humans
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When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
Philip PullmanStichwörter: choice philosophy
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Stichwörter: inspirational poetry philosophy death-and-dying
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