"All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies."

-- Hermann Hesse

#Lying Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Interpretation Quotes

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Wall Street Journal"/"Rahm Emanuel on the Opportunities of Crisis", www.youtube.com. November 19, 2008.
“Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind”

Source : Janet Frame (1951). “The lagoon: stories”
“I don't belong to any denomination or religion, I just belong to God.”
“People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)”
“The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practicedby every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.”
“Be friendly first. Service starts with a friendly person with a friendly smile, who offers friendly words first. How friendly are you?”
“Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.”

Source : John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.115, Manchester University Press
“Humility, which is a virtue, is always fruitful in good works.”

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