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Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you're not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought.


Carroll Bryant


#humorous-quotations #philosophical #humor

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.


Jeffrey Archer


#philosophical #humor

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#limitations #lucidity #philosophical #philosophy #life

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.


Carroll Bryant


#human-nature #opinion #perception #philisophical-life #philosophical

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.


Georg Simmel


#sociology #life

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.


W.E.H. Lecky


#politics #wisdom #life

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God.


J.C. Marino


#fantasy #philosophical #men

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#consequences #evil #evil-men #faust #faust-legend

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.


Christopher Isherwood


#philosophical #philosophical

Man is Nature's most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.


Armando Valladares


#political #nature