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Saturday Quote Day, Week 20, 2019
Each week I manage to get to these a day later than before 
. Here we go........
'The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being absolutely over-educated.'
- Oscar Wilde
'To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earlier than our intelligence, and we had feelings before we had ideas.'
- Jean Jacques-Rousseau
'The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamily self-aware, the sub-microscopic moments.'
- Don DeLillo
'Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at time to be poor and enslaved.'
- Albert Camus
'Character is determined by choice, not opinion.'
- Aristotle
'To realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.'
- Bertrand Russell
'Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.'
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
'The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.'
- Cicero
- Oscar Wilde
'To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earlier than our intelligence, and we had feelings before we had ideas.'
- Jean Jacques-Rousseau
'The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamily self-aware, the sub-microscopic moments.'
- Don DeLillo
'Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at time to be poor and enslaved.'
- Albert Camus
'Character is determined by choice, not opinion.'
- Aristotle
'To realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.'
- Bertrand Russell
'Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.'
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
'The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.'
- Cicero
Saturday Quote Day, Week 20, 2019
Each week I manage to get to these a day later than before . Here we go........ 'The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being absolutely over-educated.' - Oscar Wilde 'To exist is to feel; our feeling is undoubtedly earli...
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there are far too many really, really good ones for me to even attempt to make some exact distinction . Cheers, Filip
My favorite two
Einstein: Within difficulties lies opportunity Our family motto (origin most likely in India): “Winners don’t quit, and quitters don’t win”
Good ones Filip... I only have three this week
The first two are similar... the third is a example of... " We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes of unbelievable proportions occur weekly. In ancient Greek ...
I love how you....
couldn't help but add photography, as redundant as the gesture is . Excellent quotes. Cheers, Filip
Ah, Oscar Wilde..
Probably why I underdress :p Favorite is Rousseau.. thanks for the quotes!
