"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

Nothing, Past, Will, Wood

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"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

George Eliot, British Author

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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."

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"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

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"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live."

Learning, Life, Reflection, Growth

"Somewhere and I can't find where I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest 'If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell?' 'No' said the priest 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why ' asked the Eskimo earnestly 'did you tell me?'"

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"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."

Family, Children, World, Years

"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."

Imagination, Books, Mind, Fiction

"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?"

Ethics, Knowledge, Faith, Morality

"Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?"

Relationship, Connection, Presence, Observation

"Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair."

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"I had a head for religious ideas. They were the first ideas I ever encountered. They made other ideas seem mean....I had miles of Bible in memory: some perforce, but most by hap, like the words to songs. There was no corner of my brain where you couldn't find, among the files of clothing labels and heaps of rocks, among the swarms of protozoans and shelves of novels, whole tapes and snarls and reels of Bible."

Education, Memory, Religion, Idea, Learning