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tiny.ag/e1kjrdfj  ·  submitted 2010

Put reason aside and all we have left are lies.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/lnnfpbem  ·  submitted 2010

The last to be polite are, usually, the first to fight.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/g8smedqq  ·  submitted 2010

All things come and go, so it's best to know what's your's alone.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/dyxaj7tu  ·  submitted 2010

Everything, that does or doesn't work is a lesson learned.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/hkynxi6u  ·  submitted 2010

Proximity breeds intimacy.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/cqnzghbd  ·  submitted 2010

By persuasion, not intimidation.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/u2sy3lqf  ·  submitted 2010

Reason allows us to make sense of things we're not even familiar with.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/180vtsed  ·  submitted 2010

Better a reality check, than to live in delusion.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/02nrgsmm  ·  submitted 2010

"God" either is or isn't, but no amount of pleading will cause "him" to be.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/2ybbedo0  ·  submitted 2010

Creativity entails freedom, if we're not to be hemmed in by restrictions.

Paul Trawitzki, from Certain Truths

tiny.ag/asuqfcok  ·  submitted 2010 by jibandiya

Two heads are better than one but two blockheads are two too many.

Dipak Sen Gupta, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/w2scxkhm  ·  submitted 2010 by Emilebenoit

Art cannot compete with entertainment in the same manner that love cannot compete with sex.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Art and Literature

tiny.ag/sxvtaegh  ·  submitted 2010 by Emilebenoit

There is a rather morbid sense of superiority and arrogance that the living seem to feel toward the dead, almost as if those now deceased had been outlived.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/goq1exyb  ·  submitted 2010 by Emilebenoit

The living are always right, but the dead have all the answers.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/ylfaqr4g  ·  submitted 2010 by Emilebenoit

The temptation to delude oneself is sometimes too provocative to bear alone, so a man calls for his friends to join him.

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/fvjmwfae  ·  submitted 2010 by Emilebenoit

The fool who believes there would be little lost to humanity if a few imbeciles were subtracted does not conceive of the possibility that he is one of them

Emile Benoit, - Essays and Aphorisms on the Higher Man, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/djes1ruy  ·  submitted 2010 by chance47

If you must hold a belief, hold it for questioning

Chauncey Carter

tiny.ag/nkzphorf  ·  submitted 2010 by chance47

Some people are so lazy the only exercise they get is jumping to conclusions

Chauncey Carter

tiny.ag/ydkc39oz  ·  submitted 2010 by chance47

I'm so thankful I could kill a turkey

Chauncey Carter

tiny.ag/clvejkh3  ·  submitted 2010 by chance47

Nobody likes being told they're stupid, but stupid people hate it

Chauncey Carter

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