"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."

-- Joseph Priestley

#Writing Quotes #Parasites Quotes #Critics Quotes

“They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").”
“Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didnâ€™t know they could stack crap that high,”
“We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.”
“I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.”
“Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.”
“The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.”

Source : Rudolf Carnap, Rolf A. George (1969). “The Logical Structure of the World: And, Pseudoproblems in Philosophy”, p.299, Open Court Publishing
“God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.”
“Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.”

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