Quotes
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Quotes
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
— Gustave Flaubert
— Gustave Flaubert
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
—JH Newman
—JH Newman
Luke Burgis • Tweet
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
Love this quote. Data to information to knowledge will be the realm of AI soon. But determining actionable insights and whether to act will be the human realm longer.
"There is a point beyond which we cannot return. That is the point that must be reached." —Franz Kafka
Henrik Karlsson • Tweet
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“Life is complicated. It’s filled with nuance. It’s unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple fucking answer.”
—Anthony Bourdain
—Anthony Bourdain
Poetic Outlaws • Tweet
"If the going is easy, maybe you are going downhill" — Max Frisch