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“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“Years after the war, after marriages, children, divorces, books, he came to Paris with his wife. He phoned her. It's me. She recognized him at once from the voice. He said, I just wanted to hear your voice. She said, it's me, hello. He was nervous, afraid, as before. His voice suddenly trembled. And with the trembling, suddenly, she heard again the voice of China. He knew she'd begun writing books, he'd heard about it through her mother whom he'd met again in Saigon. And about her younger brother, and he'd been grieved for her. Then he didn't know what to say. And then he told her. Told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, he could never stop loving her, that he'd love her until death.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“Die Abgrenzung Jahwes als einzigem Gott von seiner vormaligen, bunten Familie - seiner Frau Aschera, selbst eine Göttin des Bodens, und ihren begabten Kindern, dem wilden Baal, der promisken Astarte, der Jägerin Anat und dem Meeresgott Jam - erscheint als Sysiphosarbeit.”
― Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland

“Unser Gedächtnis ist der wahre Sitz unseres Ich.”
― Benjamin Stein, The Canvas

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We are formed by what we desire”
― John Irving, In One Person

“One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.”
― John Cowper Powys

“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”
― John Donne, Alchimie der Liebe. Gedichte, zweisprachig

“To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.”
― John Donne

“Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
― John Donne, The Complete English Poems

“My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,
And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest,
Where can we finde two better hemispheares
Without sharpe North, without declining West?
What ever dyes, was not mixt equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.”
― John Donne, The Complete English Poems

“... Laß mich heute nicht nach Hause gehen,
Bis der Schatten ganz vorüber ist.
Denn solange du noch bei mir bist,
Fühle ich, es kann mir nichts geschehen.”
― Mascha Kaléko, Das lyrische Stenogrammheft

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“Der Zweck der Philosophie ist die logische Klärung der Gedanken.
Die Philosophie ist keine Lehre, sondern eine Tätigkeit.
Ein philosophisches Werk besteht wesentlich aus Erläuterungen.
Das Resultat der Philosophie sind nicht »philosophische Sätze«, sondern das Klarwerden von Sätzen.
Die Philosophie soll die Gedanken, die sonst, gleichsam, trübe und verschwommen sind, klar machen und scharf abgrenzen.

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The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
The result of philosophy is not a number of "philosophical propositions", but to make propositions clear.
Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“5.641 [...] Das philosophische Ich ist nicht der Mensch, nicht der menschliche Körper, oder die menschliche Seele, von der die Psychologie handelt, sondern das metaphysische Subjekt, die Grenze - nicht ein Teil - der Welt.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus