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“It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski“The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.”
Intentions • Oscar Wilde“I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“To live alone one must be an animal or a God - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”
Twilight of the Idols • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust.”
Gorgias • Plato