Escritas — Poems List

Alfred Korzybski

There are two ways to

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

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Archbishop William Temple, 1955

It is a mistake to

It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.

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Anonymous

The difference between genius and

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits

119

Lois McMaster Bujold

Since no one is perfect,

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

43

Friedrich Nietzsche

The world itself is the

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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Oscar Wilde

Morality, like art, means drawing

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

78

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I had that familiar conviction

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

415

Russian Proverb

To live is well, but

To live is well, but to live well is better

50

H. L. Mencken

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

31

Arthur C. Clarke

But the only way of

But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

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Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings and

We shape our buildings and they shape us.

62

William Goldman

Life is pain, anyone who

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

78

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

48

Dave Letterman

USA Today has come out

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

17

Mies van der Rohe

Less is more.

16

Ray Bradbury

Those who don't build must

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquence.

100

Cato the Censor

Rem tene, verba sequntur

28

Scott Adams

If there are no stupid

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

76

Charlotte Brontë

I must dislike those who,

I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly.

115

John Adams

I must study politics and

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

122

Bible

You believe that there is

You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that - and shudder.

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Dennis Miller

We need anything politically important

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

35

Walt Disney

If it can be dreamed,

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.

77

Friedrich Nietzsche

That which is done out

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

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