"Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius."

-- Remy de Gourmont

#Life Quotes #Lying Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”
“If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.”
“Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.”
“Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.”
“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”
“Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.”

Source : Nash Buckingham (1936). “Mark Right!: Tales of Shooting & Fishing”
“My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.”
“We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.”

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