"For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back."

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Source : Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.124, University of Chicago Press

Leo Strauss

#Trying Quotes #May Quotes

“But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my world for a change!”
“Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.”
“You are both a work of art and an artist at work.”
“Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.”

Source : "2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt". Book by James A. Haught, 1996.
“Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.”
“A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.”
“If my life were a song, what would it be? 'A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times'.”
“Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.”

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