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“Do you not think that God will protect us?”“No,” he said flatly. “My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.”
“Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like cloth...”
“Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.”
“The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play”
“...even nursery tales only echo an almost pre-natal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. ...”
“Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.”
“Observe the movements of the stars as if you were running their courses with them, and let your mind constantly dwell on the changes of the elements into each other. Such imaginings wash away the f...”
“In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.”
“Love delayed is lust augmented.”
“Rien ne sert de courir il faut partir à point”
“She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.”
“At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.”
“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”
“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they ought, some b...”
“In general, I try and distinguish between what one calls the Future and “l’avenir” [the ‘to come]. The future is that which – tomorrow, later, next century – will be. There is a future which is pre...”
“Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà.”
“aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vencer o ódio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande número de inim...”
“Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?”
“La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender ...”
