Posted by: Elisabetta
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.
Logic is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Now it's late. Late to come away. Late to tell you other lies. Late for questions and answers.
Get together with those who sing, tell stories, enjoy life and have joy in their eyes. Because joy is contagious, and always manages to impeed men from being paralized by depression, by solitude and by difficulties.
Unite to those who procede with their head held high, even if the eyes are full of tears.
A sense of duty is like some horrible disease. It destroys the tissues of the mind, as certain complaints destroy the tissues of the body. The catechism has a great deal to answer for.
When you observe the quality of the thoughts of an alienated man, it is astonishing to see how his intelligence has evolved and how his reason has degenerated. He takes his reality as it is; he desires to enjoy it, to consume it, to touch it, to handle it. He doesn't even wonder what lies behind, because things are as they appear, and where we are going. You cannot eat the meaning, you cannot consume the sense, and for what regards the future: après moi le deluge!
You need a lot of energy to invent a present when the future seems more of a menace than a hope.