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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and read more
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo read more
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions read more
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.
Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.
Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.
Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.
