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Intellectual Inspirational Quotes (738)

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Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up I forget them almost immediately.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
Dante Alighieri
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One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
Dante Alighieri
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
Dante Alighieri
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I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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How hideous is the semicolon.
Samuel Beckett
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The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.
Samuel Beckett
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I hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
Clifton Fadiman
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Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The recent experiences of pocketbooks prove this. I have changed my public since my works have been published in a smaller format.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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God is love. Yes or no? No.
Samuel Beckett
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I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
Dante Alighieri
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As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.
Samuel Beckett
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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
Dante Alighieri
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What kind of country is this where a woman can't weep her heart out on the highways and byways without being tormented by retired bill-brokers!
Samuel Beckett
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
Charles Van Doren
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Wine is poetry in a bottle.
Clifton Fadiman
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