Quotes 5901 till 5920 of 6475.
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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
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What one fool can understand, another can.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903) -
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
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