"The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber."

-- Jane Porter

#Merit Quotes #Honest Quotes #Flattery Quotes

“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? Itâ€™s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”

Source : "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.
“The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...”

Source : "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.
“You don't need people's opinion on a fact.”

Source : "John Oliver & Bill Nye School Climate Change Skeptics On ‘Last Week Tonight’" by Katherine Fung, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2014.
“I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I canâ€™t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I donâ€™t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I donâ€™t really resent it.”
“I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.”
“In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.”
“It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.”
“I assumed the amount wouldn't be detectable. I also didn't feel that I had done anything wrong.”

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