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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Virginia Woolf /

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell /

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Henry David Thoreau /

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill /

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

A phrase often attributed to Henry David Thoreau - Quotation of uncertain origin /

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Bertrand Russell /

ethics

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf /

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

Virginia Woolf /

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama /

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf /

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell /

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau /

time

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust /

happiness

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill /

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau /

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Bertrand Russell /

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill /

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Bertrand Russell /

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill /

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill /

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell /

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill /

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill /

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Marcel Proust /

habit

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Salvador Dalí /

society

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Bertrand Russell /

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf /

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau /

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau /

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Simone de Beauvoir /

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