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The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.

G.K. Chesterton The Everlasting...
The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise...

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

... but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific...

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy
... but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

G.K. Chesterton Heretics
Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. - HEINRICH HEINE

Timothy Ferriss The 4 Hour...
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. - HEINRICH HEINE

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates

Timothy Ferriss The 4-Hour Body:...
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates

People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of...

Erich Fromm The Art of Being
People are afraid to concentrate because they are afraid of losing themselves if they are too absorbed in another person, in an idea, in an event. The less strong their self, the greater the fear of losing themselves in the act of concentration on the non-self.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the...

Henry David Thoreau Complete Works...
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Henry David Thoreau Civil...
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

A single farm house which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey. There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape...

Henry David Thoreau Walking
A single farm house which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey. There is in fact a sort of harmony discoverable between the capabilities of the landscape within a circle of ten miles' radius, or the limits of an afternoon walk, and the threescore years and ten of human life. It will never become quite familiar to you.

Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

Henry David Thoreau Autumnal Tints
Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for...

Henry David Thoreau Civil...
I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

John Perkins Confessions of...
The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

Religion is concerned not with genuine history, but with sacred history, which does not course through time like a river. Rather, sacred history is like a hallowed tree whose roots dig deep into...

Reza Aslan No god but God:...
Religion is concerned not with genuine history, but with sacred history, which does not course through time like a river. Rather, sacred history is like a hallowed tree whose roots dig deep into primordial time and whose branches weave in and out of genuine history with little concern for the boundaries of space and time.

At some time during the process, {of writing} I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months...

Ryan Holiday Ego Is the Enemy
At some time during the process, {of writing} I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months later, those painful pages were dirt that nourished my yard, which I could walk with bare feet. It was a real and tangible connection to that larger immensity. I liked to remind myself that the same process is going to happen to me when I'm done, when I die and nature tears me up...

As Plato said, every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. It's essential to constantly keep this in...

Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic:...
As Plato said, every soul is deprived of truth against its will. The same holds true for justice, self-control, goodwill to others, and every similar virtue. It's essential to constantly keep this in your mind, for it will make you more gentle to all.

It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It's remembering Socrates' wisdom lay in the fact that he knew that he knew next to nothing.

Ryan Holiday The Ego Is the...
It takes a special kind of humility to grasp that you know less, even as you know and grasp more and more. It's remembering Socrates' wisdom lay in the fact that he knew that he knew next to nothing.

Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Hegel's...
Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject.

Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Elements of the...
Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.

Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew.

Colum McCann Let the Great...
Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew.

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

Colum McCann TransAtlantic
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic.

Ridicule was a better defense than truth.

Anne McCaffrey The Dragonriders...
Ridicule was a better defense than truth.

Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might - have - beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?

Mark Z. Danielewski Honeysuckle &...
Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might - have - beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?

Yeah, exactly. But, actually, boards prefer iron. All that glitters is not hovery.

Scott Westerfeld Uglies
Yeah, exactly. But, actually, boards prefer iron. All that glitters is not hovery.

More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.

Scott Westerfeld Afterworlds
More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.

Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved - over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of...

Scott Westerfeld Afterworlds
Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved - over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past.

We are only what we know.

David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
We are only what we know.

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that truly move the world are invisible.

David Mitchell Cloud Atlas
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that truly move the world are invisible.

A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.

David Mitchell Slade House
A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.

Do spirals end? Or just get so tiny your eyes can't follow any more?

David Mitchell Black Swan Green
Do spirals end? Or just get so tiny your eyes can't follow any more?
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