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4522 E Naguib Mahfouz You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Wisdom
Wisdom
2939 E Pierre Elliott Trudeau The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
Politics
Politics
13048 E Daniel Dennett One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.
Psychology
Psychology
7936 E Antonio Damasio Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
Mind
Mind
7315 E Tom Waits Time is just memory mixed in with Desire.
Time
Time
16919 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The fact that we cannot write down all the digits of pi is not a human shortcoming, as mathematicians sometimes think.
Human nature
Human nature
12281 E Antonio Porchia Being someone is being one alone. Being someone is loneliness.
Solitude
Solitude
8253 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) An open heart is an open mind.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
8226 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
4730 E Ambrose Bierce PAIN: An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
Pleasure and pain
Pleasure and pain
13071 E Daniel Dennett The recognition of the difference between appearance and reality is a human discovery.
Knowledge
Knowledge
16877 E Ludwig Wittgenstein The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
Philosophy
Philosophy
5772 E Woody Allen Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Mankind
Mankind
8316 E Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
8571 E Alfred Korzybski If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
5860 E Anonymous Love me when I least deserve it, because it's when I need it most.
Love
Love
4697 E Rainer Maria Rilke There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.
Travelling
Travelling
5141 E George Carlin Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
4686 E François de La Rochefoucauld Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
Hope
Hope
14418 E Aristotele Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
Freedom
Freedom