A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
~ John Ruskin
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
~ Hannah Arendt
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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No country on earth bleeds like the U.S. No nation so wealthy, so wired, and so watched has grown so numb to slaughter. Schools, malls, churches, cinemas — each new massacre arrives like bad weather. Flags lower, candles burn and then life resumes. Until the next mass shooting occurs.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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To be a good designer, you have to be half-psychologist.
~ Dieter Rams
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Americans remain a wildly diverse, individualistic, aspirational people, with rising rates of mixed marriage, residential integration, and immigration from all over the world. Any rigid politics of identity—whether the left’s obsession with “marginalized communities,” or its sinister opposite in the reactionary paranoia of “white replacement theory”—is bound to shatter against the realities of American life.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
~ John Ruskin
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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good design is environmentally friendly.
~ Dieter Rams
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