Favourite Quotations (Moderator: Frederique)

Η αγυρτεία γεννήθηκε όταν ο πρώτος απατεώνας συνάντησε τον πρώτο ανόητο

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The human mind, aroused by an insistence for meaning, seeks and finds nothing but contradiction and nonsense

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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

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A misogynist is attending to the burial of his wife, who has just died, when someone asks: "Who is it who rests in peace here?". He answers: "Me, now that I'm rid of her!"

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A man complains that the slave he has recently purchased has died. "By the gods,' says the slave's former owner, "when he was with me, he never did any such thing."

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My dear boy, I answered, I am an historian - my profession largely consists in speaking ill of the dead.

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Unless you are a healthy, growing individual – unless, as it were, you love yourself – you can’t love others.

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Religions, as they have come down to us, are gold mixed with ore. Sometimes the quantity of gold is so small, compared with the quantity of ore, that it is not worth the labour of extraction. Better open up a new mine.

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The happiness that you feel when you satisfy a desire is not due to the satisfaction of the desire but to the momentary cessation of the desire. But the desire returns. Therefore desires can never be satisfied: they can only be overcome, abandoned.

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Sometimes, of course, we just try – we may even do our best – to forget the whole bothersome question of personal development... once you’ve reached a certain point, once self- consciousness has really started to emerge, once you’ve really started to think, once you’ve really started to feel, once you’ve really started to imagine, you cannot really do that.

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Δεν αποφεύγει τον κίνδυνον εκείνος ο οποίος φεύγει αυτόν. Αποφεύγει τον κίνδυνον αποτελεσματικώς εκείνος ο οποίος αντιμετωπίζει αυτόν.

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La langue ment à la parole et la parole à la pensée

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Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre. C'est comme si j'avais des mots en guise de doigts, ou des doigts au bout de mes mots.

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Μεγάλωσα στην Τρούμπα, ο πατέρας µου είχε εκεί κουρείο. Έτσι είχα την ευκαιρία να γνωριστώ µε τους χασικλήδες και τις πόρνες της περιοχής. Σας διαβεβαιώνω, πως σ’ αυτούς τους ανθρώπους είδα περισσότερο Θεό απ’ ό,τι σε υποτιθέμενους ευσεβείς. Γιατί είδα ανθρώπους οικτίρμονες. Σπλαχνικούς.

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Ο ρατσισμός στην Αμερική είναι σαν τη σκόνη στον αέρα. Φαίνεται αόρατος, ως τη στιγμή που δεν μπαίνει ο ήλιος. Όταν μπει, όμως, τότε συνειδητοποιείς ότι είναι παντού. Όσο αφήνουμε το φως, θα έχουμε μια ευκαιρία να καθαρίσουμε όπου κι αν πηγαίνει.

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Have a strong mind and a soft heart

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Πόσο συμπλεγματικό όμως να νομίζει ένας ασήμαντος ότι, αποδομώντας κάποιον σημαντικό, θα εισπράξει κάτι από τη σημαντικότητά του.

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