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Thus the best sign of originality lies in taking up a subject and then developing it so fully as to make every one confess that he would hardly have found so much in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
We have long been busy with the critique of reason. I should like to see a critique of common-sense.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
Wolfgang Tillmans
Elizabeth Mullaney • 3 cards
We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but mutability!
Mary Shelley • Frankenstein: The Original 1818 Unabridged and Complete Edition (A Mary Shelley Classics
Billy Oppenheimer • The Notecard System: Capture, Organize, and Use Everything You Read, Watch, and Listen To
On Bullshit
Every one knows how to value what he has attained in life; most of all the man who thinks and reflects in his old age. He has a comfortable feeling that it is something of which no one can rob him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
Individually, the scenes can seem trivial or meaningless: their power comes only when the play is taken as a whole.