"Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of."

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Source : Daniel Defoe (1948). “Robinson Crusoe, and A journal of the plague year”

Daniel Defoe

#Hate Quotes #Desire Quotes #Today Quotes

“People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.”
“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.”
“Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.”
“It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being...”
“Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective: Philosophical Essays”, p.154, Clarendon Press
“We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what ***** and fools we are.”
“Never make a major decision based solely on money.”
“I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.”

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