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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back
to the pleasant fact that there are read more
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back
to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs
and honor those whom they have slain. The read more
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs
and honor those whom they have slain. The Brothers Karamazov
.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the
other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the
other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere read more
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course read more
People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of
rivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of the
stars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.
Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense read more
Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
To finish first, you must first finish.
To finish first, you must first finish.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.