"The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are."

-- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Believe Quotes #Want Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.”
“I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore.”
“George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!”
“I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.”
“Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.”
“Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.”

Source : Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.60, JHU Press
“My family immigrated from Korea when I was four years old, and when I started school, I didn't speak English. I remember that other kids would blame everything bad that happened in kindergarten on me - I spent a lot of time "in the corner" because I literally didn't have the words to explain that it wasn't me!”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Life - life - let there be life!”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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