"Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day."

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Source : Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler (2013). “On What Matters: Volume One”, p.40, Oxford University Press

Derek Parfit

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.”
“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.”
“I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.”
“Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.”
“Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.”

Source : Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers
“A wise traveller never despises his own country.”
“you've got to wish for something the whole time when you're seventeen. You've got to, or there's nothing to live for. However impossible you've got to think you want it. ... When I couldn't think of a thing I wanted I nearly died.”
“Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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