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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Mason Cooley
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Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
Antoine Rivarol
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The fear of separation is all that unites.
Antonio Porchia
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Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
Mason Cooley
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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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War: A by-product of the arts of peace.
Ambrose Bierce
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It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Seneca the Younger
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
Ambrose Bierce
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Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Mason Cooley
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For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.
Franz Kafka
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
Mark Twain
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
Seneca the Younger
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Nought venture nought have.
John Heywood
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When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
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MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce
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Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
Mason Cooley
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I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.
Mark Twain
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To avoid eye contact, kiss.
Mason Cooley
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