"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

Age, Character, Will, World

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Age, Youth

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Age, Absurdity, May

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Age, Forget, Invention

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Age, Work, Genius, Cleanliness

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

Age, Writer

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Time, Old

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Age, Months

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Death, Love, Old

"No lie ever reaches old age."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Lie, Old

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"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."

Life

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

Connection

"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."

History

"Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction."

Strength

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

Cause

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."

Change

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

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"If youth knew; if age could."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

"No lie ever reaches old age."

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"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."

"Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction."

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"In business for yourself, not by yourself."

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."