Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Novels are longer than life.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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Eternity -- waste of time.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
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Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
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He'd obviously been there a long time and whatever he was surviving on wasn't giving him that much nutrition. (He is) a big tall man, six foot two, six foot three, and he was just a walking skeleton basically.
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I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.
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But, my dear, you cannot live in isolation from the human race, you know.
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Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
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No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
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A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.
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Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users
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There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
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