Today Quotes
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One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf
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The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Aragorn
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....Mark Twain
I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you.J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Faramir
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.Robert Ingersoll,
Dont get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house.Sydney James
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.John Andrew Holmes
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist