Sartre

It is death which is this victory, for death is the final arrest of Temporality by the making-past of human Totality by the in-itself.

Leonard Cohen

Angelica stands by the sea
Anything I say is too loud for her mood
I will have to come back
a million years later
with the scalp of my old life
hanging from one hand

Sartre

Shall I pass judgement on my character, on my nature? Is this not to veil from myself at that moment what I know only too well, that I thus judge a past to which by definition my present is not subject? The proof of this is that same man who in sincerity posits that he is what in actuality he was, is indignant at the reproach of another and tries to disarm it by asserting that he can no longer be what he was.

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Sartre quote

It is necessary then to recognize that destruction is an essentially human thing and that it is man who destroys his cities through the agency of earthquakes or directly, who destroys his ships through the agency of cyclones or directly. But at the same time it is necessary to acknowledge that destruction supposes a pre-judicative comprehension of nothingness as such and a conduct in the face of nothingness.

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Camus

"Each of insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself." - Camus, The Fall.

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All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. Friedrich Nietzsche http://amplify.com/u/ar9r

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. 
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Quote Details: Friedrich Nietzsche: Talking much about oneself... - The Quotations Page

Quote Details: Friedrich Nietzsche: Talking much about oneself... - The Quotations Page:

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)"

Quotes of the Day - The Quotations Page

Quotes of the Day - The Quotations Page:


"The average person thinks he isn't.
Father Larry Lorenzoni"

Quotes of the Day - The Quotations Page

Quotes of the Day - The Quotations Page:

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)"

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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)"

who was Ayn Rand? - a biography, Playboy interview, 1964

who was Ayn Rand? - a biography, Playboy interview, 1964:

"PLAYBOY: In Atlas Shrugged, one of your leading characters is asked,
'What's the most depraved type of human being?' His reply is surprising: He
doesn't say a sadist or a murderer or a sex maniac or a dictator; he says, 'The
man without a purpose.' Yet most people seem to go through their lives without a
clearly defined purpose. Do you regard them as depraved?
RAND: Yes, to a
certain extent."

This comes from an Interview Playboy Magazine did with Ayn Rand.

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"No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
30th president of US (1872 - 1933)"

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 25, 2008

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 25, 2008


An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

Quotation #27624 from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Quotation #27624 from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

John Ruskin
English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900)

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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)"

Quotes of the Day - The Quotations Page

Quotes of the Day - The Quotations Page:

"There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)"