"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

-- Anatole France

#Happiness Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Inner Peace Quotes

“I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.”
“The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.”
“I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.”
“When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!”
“The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in the hands of one person, or a small group of people, instead of a huge party-state apparatus. The possibility of a mistake is greater now.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.”

Source : Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.197, Courier Corporation
“Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark,swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.”

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