"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'"

-- Ludwig Wittgenstein

#Wisdom Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.”
“The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.”
“I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.”
“I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.”
“But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.”
“With what we've been taught is the proper role of art, which is that you want to have it very neatly matted and framed and put on a white wall in some room where only a certain class of people are going to go in.”
“I am a master of foolhardy plans.”

Source : "The Thief". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 1996.
“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”

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