“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

― Confucius, Analects

“all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

“Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is that which must be personal and may be perverse.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Should you find yourself in a chronically-leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“When I'm with artists I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful, and then I go out into the streets and the first child I meet with its poor, hungry,...”

― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

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