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#1

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: absurd, absurdity, hope, idea

#2

“I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

tags: misanthropy

119 likes

#3

“That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
― William Blake, The Complete Poetry and Prose

17 likes

#4

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
― Samuel Johnson, Selected Essays

15 likes

#5

“Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

15 likes

#6

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

148572 likes

#7

“The best is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: ambition, best, desires, good, greed, insatiability

193 likes

#8

“Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.”
― Walt Whitman

15 likes

#9

“Feeling comes in aid
Of feeling, and diversity of strength
Attends us, if but once we have been strong.”
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude

9 likes

#10

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Elizabeth Appell

7946 likes

#11

“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
― William Blake

52 likes

#12

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

1018 likes

#13

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”
― Winston Churchill

tags: inspirational

329 likes

#14

“Try to be one of those people on whom nothing is lost.”
― Henry James

9 likes

#15

“The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again”
― Jimi Hendrix

tags: eye, goodbye, hello, life, love, song-lyrics

970 likes

#16

“Exuberance is beauty.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

tags: inspirational

107 likes

#17

“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
― Henry James

tags: integrity, self-esteem

480 likes

#18

“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.”
― John Stuart Mill

tags: eccentricity

23 likes

#19

“What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.”
― Christian D. Larson

tags: awaken, develop, love, others

23 likes

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