“Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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“They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“The highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before . . . He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.”

― Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address

“An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Prosperity's the very bond of love, whose fresh complexion and whose heart together affliction alters.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

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