Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Category Archives: Philosophy
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Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.
—Fritz Leiber
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τοῖς ἐγρηγορόσιν ἕνα καὶ κοινὸν κόσμον εἶναι, τῶν δὲ κοιμωμένων ἕκαστον εἰς ἴδιον ἀποστρέφεσθαι All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
—Heraclitus
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Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.
—Oscar Wilde
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
—Oscar Wilde
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
—H. L. Mencken
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Truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.
—Benedict XVI
