"Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions."

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Passion Quotes #Sea Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.”
“I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.”
“Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.”
“Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.”
“Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.”
“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.”
“I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.”
“There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.”

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