"The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important."

-- William Ralph Inge

#Mistake Quotes #Mind Quotes #Important Quotes

“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
“They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.”
“Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.”
“We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”
“I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.”
“The real secret to investing is that there is no secret to investing.”
“The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.”
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”

Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library

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