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“Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq
“Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.”
“Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.”
“Nothing is more compelling than the power of choice. You can choose good over evil and right over wrong. Choose right!”
“Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.”
“Nothing is more complex than simplification; what art takes from enigma it more than replenishes in the instantiation of itself, in the labyrinthine puzzle it plants in history. The intensification of enigma. The luxuriantly problematic loam of existence is built out of the sedimented aeons of residues deposited by the will to power, the impulse to create.”
Source: Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007
“Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.”
“Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.”
Source: ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished
“Nothing is more conditional — or, let us say, narrower — than our feeling for beauty. Whoever would think of it apart from man's joy in man would immediately lose any foothold. "Beautiful in itself" is a mere phrase, not even a concept. In the beautiful, man posits himself as the measure of perfection; in special cases he worships himself in it. A species cannot do otherwise but thus affirm itself alone. Its lowest instinct, that of self-preservation and self-expansion, still radiates in such sublimities. Man believes the world itself to be overloaded with beauty — and he forgets himself as the cause of this. He alone has presented the world with beauty — alas! only with a very human, all-too-human beauty. At bottom, man mirrors himself in things; he considers everything beautiful that reflects his own image: the judgment "beautiful" is the vanity of his species. For a little suspicion may whisper this question into the skeptic's ear: Is the world really
beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all. But nothing, absolutely nothing, guarantees that man should be the model of beauty. Who knows what he looks like in the eyes of a higher judge of beauty? Daring perhaps? Perhaps even amusing? Perhaps a little arbitrary?”
“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.”
“Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.”
Source: The Waste Books
“Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.”
“Nothing is more conservative than conservation”
“Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.”
“Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.”
Source: Lyonesse
“Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.”
“Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.”
“Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.”
Source: Spirit Matters
“Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart.”
“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.”
Source: The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches
“Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon
“Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.”
“Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe each other daily, even hourly and who keep up the impression of disinterest either because of morals or because of a mental abnormality. Between them there is listlessness and pent-up curiosity, the hysteria of an unsatisfied, unnaturally suppressed need for communion and also a kind of tense respect. Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.”
“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.”
Source: A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers
“Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.”
“Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.”
“Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.”
“Nothing is more dangerous in political life than the abandonment of reason. The intellect must remain the controlling, regulating force in human affairs.”
“Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.”
Source: The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...
“Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.”
Source: The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941
“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history
“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.”
Source: Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history
“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.”
“Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.”
“Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.”
Source: Saint Denis
“Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella
“Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On Isaiah 33- 48
“Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle...Let me put it quite simply: If Jesus had $40,000 and knew about the kids who are suffering and dying in Haiti, what kind of car would he buy?”
“Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.”
“Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.”
“Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.”
“Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature
“Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.”
“Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.”
Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
“Nothing is more debilitating than to care about something you can't do anything about. And you can't do anything about your adult children. You can want better for them, and maybe even begin to provide something for them, but in the long run, you cannot do anything about someone else's vibration other than hold them in the best light you can, mentally, and then project that to them. And sometimes, distance makes that much more possible than being up close to them.”
“Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice