The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
~ Confucius
Author Archives: Louis Feuerbach
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Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.
~ Marcel Proust
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Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
~ Lao Zi
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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.
~ Marcel Proust
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“Libertarianism is a half-baked ideology that a certain type of young man gravitates to because he is unwilling – or perhaps unable – to think beyond his sociopathic self absorption.”
~ Louis A. Feuerbach
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I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.
~ Confucius
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Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.
~ Marcel Proust
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
~ Lao Zi
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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
~ Marcel Proust
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In a culture that has become obsessed with how our identities define us, far less time is spent considering how those identities just as often circumscribe. Just as emphasis on diversity can open minds, it can also harden preconceptions.
~ Pamela Paul via The New York Times
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