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- Society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it’s a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
~ John W. Gardner,from Tweet by Parakala Prabhakar
- But anything that grows your soul takes time. There are no shortcuts to hard-won insight; you can only amble your way to wisdom.
from The walking cure: when an injury forced me to slow down, I learned that we can only amble our way to wisdom | Justine Toh
- “There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book,” Oscar Wilde wrote in the preface to his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, “books are well written or badly written, that is all.”
from Analyst or Moralist?
- The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
from Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator® by byquoteresearch
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Bertrand Russell in his essay Freedom and Government, in a collection of essays titled “Freedom: Its Meaning” edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen
- Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast
from Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast
- “Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
from The crooked timber of Modi’s India by Jawed Naqvi
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Emmanuel Kant