"It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize."
W. H. Auden
"Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat."
Maureen Johnson
"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."
Idries Shah
"I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore."
Annie Baker
"His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."
Ray Bradbury
"With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot."
Stephen Jay Gould
"The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called 'spannungsbogen' -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing."
Frank Herbert
"My Opinion Is Just Opinion."
Sushil Singh
"The best self is a beautiful soul."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves."
Anonymous
"Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread."
Moutasem Algharati
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
Immanuel Kant
"Some people experience rare moments when everything they believe is challenged. Or at least shaken up. Those moments stay with them. Surprise, real surprise, is an exotic thing not soon forgotten."
Gregory Miller
"If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong."
Ben Michaelis
"The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc."
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