Random Quotes
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Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells"
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Art is a lie that tells the truth.Pablo Picasso
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.Diane Arbus, (1923-1971)
He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Battles are won by iron hearts in wooden ships.Ernst J
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.Joe Lewis
Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
(Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens)Friedrich von Schiller, Cohen & Cohen 1960, The Penguin dictionary of quotations