"Speak for the ear and write for the memory."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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"I don't do art to address other people but to address myself. I've never done art with a thought of being a professional artist who makes a living by selling his art. I've never had a commercial show …"

— Robert Fulghum

Politics1937

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"It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of ti…"

— Will Durant

Philosophy1885–1981

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"Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice , people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly."

— Edward R. Murrow

Journalism1908–1965

#mind

"O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter."

— François Fénelon

Literature1651–1715

#religion