Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. Jean Baudrillard
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost. Jean Baudrillard
You are born modern, you do not become so. Jean Baudrillard
A prudent question is one half of wisdom. Francis Bacon
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon
All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. Francis Bacon
No great genius is without an admixture of madness. Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them. Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action. Bertrand Russell
What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. Bertrand Russell
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell
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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. Friedrich Nietzsche
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. Friedrich Nietzsche
The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else’s. Friedrich Nietzsche
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. Friedrich Nietzsche
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