"Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own."

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Source : Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “The Art of Life”, p.1991, John Wiley & Sons

Zygmunt Bauman

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“Liars are always most disposed to swear.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.197
“Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature.”
“As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.”
“The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get.”
“A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.”
“No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.”
“The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.”
“The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.”

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