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“Đàn bà trên bốn mươi luôn ẩn chứa những phẩm chất ma quái.”
― Nguyễn Bình Phương, Xe lên xe xuống

“Everyone has to find his own way to die.”
― Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“A traveler who had seen many countries, peoples and several of the earth’s continents was asked what attribute he had found in men everywhere. He said: “They have a propensity for laziness.” To others, it seems that he should have said: “They are all fearful. They hide themselves behind customs and opinions.” In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that there will be no second chance for his oneness to coalesce from the strangely variegated assortment that he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience – why? From fear of his neighbor, who demands conformity and cloaks himself with it. But what is it that forces the individual to fear his neighbor, to think and act like a member of a herd, and to have no joy in himself? Modesty, perhaps, in a few rare cases. For the majority it is idleness, inertia, in short that propensity for laziness of which the traveler spoke. He is right: men are even lazier than they are fearful.”
― NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH WILHELM

“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? Memoria hospitis unius diei prætereuntis.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The statement “Hitler loved dogs and little children” is shocking no matter how many times you hear it, because any trace of kindness in someone so evil violates the expectations set up by the halo effect.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“More generally, the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average returns by selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own. The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“I decided to evaluate my portfolio only once a quarter. I am too loss averse to make sensible decisions in the face of daily price fluctuations.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Caring for people often takes the form of concern for the quality of their stories, not for their feelings.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Beyond the satiation level of income, you can buy more pleasurable experiences, but you will lose some of your ability to enjoy the less expensive ones.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Although Humans are not irrational, they often need help to make more accurate judgments and better decisions, and in some cases policies and institutions can provide that help.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“creates habitable chaos out of order”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

“Now these figures have pretty conclusively demonstrated that people who have gone to college make more money than people who have not. The exceptions are numerous, of course, but the tendency is strong and clear.”
― Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

“Now $12 on the $100 for money to be paid back regularly over half a year works out to something like forty-eight per cent real interest.”
― Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

“Eventually I became captain of the cricket and football elevens, won the racquets, tennis and billiards tournaments, and felt that the world was mine.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

“People imagine the loss of a hand to be far more serious than the loss of an eye, but having tried both I can say sincerely that it is not my experience.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

“He sat with me for the next few hours with shells dropping all around us, Holmes soliloquizing over the charms of shells versus machine-gun bullets.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

“War is a great leveller: it shows the man as he really is, not as he would like to be, nor as he would like you to think he is. It shows him stripped, with his greatness mixed with his pathetic fears and weaknesses, and though there were disappointments they were more than cancelled out by pleasant surprises of the little men who, suddenly, became larger than life. I have a creed, borne out by war, which is – never to give a man a second chance. It may sound hard, but I have found that the man who lets you down once, will, infallibly, do so again.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

“I went to Poland for three weeks, and I stayed twenty years, but to this day I could not tell you which season was the most fascinating.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

“But if it wasn’t for the politicians we wouldn’t have wars, and I, for one, should have been done out of what is for me a very agreeable life.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

“To me the right time for negotiations is after a victory when, backed by force, words seem to attain a meaning not so well understood before.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

“The ability not to be surprised by anything was considered the greatest virtue. They were all madly obsessed with the question of outward behaviour.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead

“A sense of a wider meaning to one’s existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another’s thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid.”
― arthur schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms