Quotes

Arnold Toynbee

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

— Arnold Toynbee

Timothy Leary

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The universe is an intelligence test.

— Timothy Leary

Bertrand Russell

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

— Bertrand Russell

William Ralph Inge

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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

— William Ralph Inge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rebecca West

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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

— Rebecca West

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lewis Carroll

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

— Lewis Carroll

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky