Quotes with thought-tyrants

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  • Henry Brooks Adams One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Aldous Huxley Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Simone Weil Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Fuller Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Simone Weil The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Simone Weil We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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