Quotes 341 till 360 of 393.
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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
Source: The Complete Works (2015) -
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
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To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Source: Virginibus Puerisque (1881) El Dorado -
Tombstone - An ugly reminder of one who has been forgotten.
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Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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