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Thursday Quote Day, Week 17, 2019
As no one else has taken it up to share the TQD thread I shall do the bidding this time around 
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'A man's maturity is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.'
- Friedrich Nietzsche
'Knowledge divorced from justice is cunning, not wisdom.'
- Plato
'People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.'
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
'A man is what he wills himself to be.'
- Jean-Paul Sartre
'To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.'
- Bertrand Russell
'You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.'
- Anthony Doerr
'Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.'
- Socrates
'You assert that you know the value of time and are afraid to waste it. You fail to perceive that it is a greater waste of time to use it ill than to do nothing.'
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Friedrich Nietzsche
'Knowledge divorced from justice is cunning, not wisdom.'
- Plato
'People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.'
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
'A man is what he wills himself to be.'
- Jean-Paul Sartre
'To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.'
- Bertrand Russell
'You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.'
- Anthony Doerr
'Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.'
- Socrates
'You assert that you know the value of time and are afraid to waste it. You fail to perceive that it is a greater waste of time to use it ill than to do nothing.'
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
'You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.'
- Cormac McCarthy
- Cormac McCarthy
'Beware the quiet man. For while others speak he watches. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest.... he strikes.'
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Thursday Quote Day, Week 17, 2019
As no one else has taken it up to share the TQD thread I shall do the bidding this time around ........ 'A man's maturity is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.' - Friedrich Nietzsche 'Knowledge divorced from justice is c...
I always leave the ones which I have a preference for....
at the beginning and/or end . With that said, in this group, the ones from Doerr and Rousseau are a close second in my opinion . Doerr is far from being the only person to write that history is always written by the victor, and Rousseau's statement on doi...
From "On Writing" by Stephen King (2000)
I am currently reading the book for the third time... always pick up a few points. " Your job [as an author] isn't to find ... ideas but to recognize them when they show up. " Talking about "Carrie" (novel - 1974): " ... the writer's original perception o...
One more filmmaker....
who would who has wholly embraced that philosophy throughout his career is Terrence Malick . I do agree with that line of thought as well . Cheers, Filip
