"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."

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Source : Twitter post from Jan 13, 2013

Alain de Botton

#Good Life Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“A cat is never vulgar.”

Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.177, Courier Corporation
“The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.”

Source : "arbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 63, 1989.
“I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.”
“Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.”
“It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!”
“The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.”
“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realization then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming, and about how ideas of forming stem from history.”
“Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.”

Source : Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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