“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“Two centuries ago England was devastated by the plague; cleanliness and common sense were enough to free us from its ravages. One century since, small-pox was almost as great a scourge; science, though working empirically, and almost in the dark,...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don’t do it.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted it was worth knowing.”

― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“The only immediate utility of all sciences, is to teach us, how to control and regulate future events by their causes.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live according to nature.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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