“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

“Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance; yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branches or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.”

― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

― Carl Jung, Memories

“In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Some things are fairly obvious when it’s a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“It was an impressive sight, something I wanted to clip out with scissors and pin to the wall of my memory.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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