"Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late."

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"Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late."

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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. It soothes the fever, occasionally high, of the brain at work, and produces in the mind a soft, fresh vapor that corrects the all too angular contours of pure thought, fills up the gaps and intervals here and there, binds them together, and dulls the sharp corners of ideas. But too much reverie submerges and drowns. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie it's pleasure. To replace thought with reverie is to confound poison with nourishment."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Interpretations of interpretations interpreted."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines."

Terry Jones, British Comedian

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

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"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

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"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."

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"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."

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"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."

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"Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world."

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"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

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"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."

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