From John Steinbeck: “No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
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Quote of the day 08/12/24
From John Steinbeck: “When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.”
Quote of the day 07/21/24
From Marcus Aurelius: “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized thatContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/21/24”
Quote of the day 03/30/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
Quote of the day 03/28/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “But man is not made for defeat… A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Quote of the day 01/30/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
Quote of the day 01/25/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
Quote of the day 01/23/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.”
Quote of the day 01/07/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”
Quote of the day 12/21/23
From Carl Sagan: “You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”
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