There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
~ Jonathan Swift
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As a flood spreads wider and wider, the water becomes shallower and dirtier. The Revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~ Franz Kafka
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What’s the return on investment of college? What’s the return on investment of having children, spending time with friends, listening to music, reading a book? The things that are most worth doing are worth doing for their own sake.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
~ Franz Kafka
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
~ Iain Banks
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Hail fellow, well met.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. To be sure, only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past — which is to say, only a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments.
― Walter Benjamin
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