A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
~ Umberto Eco
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To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
~ Umberto Eco
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Listening doesn’t mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don’t know you know.
~ Umberto Eco
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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Men do not sufficiently realise that their future is in their own hands.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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