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“If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.”

People Ifs Feels Should Two Happens Comedy Imagine Listening Fool Conversation Dialogue Absurd Imagine That Remarks Irritated

Book:The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

Source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)

“People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.”

People Practice Imagine Fool Emptiness Liars Thoughtlessness

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.”

Men Wise Imagine Fool

Author:Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.”

Artist Imagine Fool Unconscious Collaboration Primitive Robinson Crusoe

Author:William Baziotes

“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.”

Book Real Sometimes Helping Hands Accepting Wise Imagine Fool Depends Ought Kings Dignity Importance Titles Merit Slender

Book:Essays and The Bee

Source: Essays and The Bee

“I must work, so as not to be a fool, to get on, to become a journalist, because that's what I want!... I can't imagine that I would have to lead the same sort of life as Mummyand all the women who do their work and are then forgotten. I must have something besides a husband and children, something that I can devote myself to!”

Want Children I Can Imagine Fool Husband Forgotten Journalist Imagine That

Author:Anne Frank

“If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.”

People Ifs Believe Said Belief Opinion Imagine Fool Accounts Hills Indifferent Propose

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.”

Thinking Men Hard Levels Attention Wise Imagine One Thing Fool Mets Equal Paid Absolutes Surface Stores Giants Superiority Exclusive Commonplace Texture Dwarfs

Author:William Hazlitt

“Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!”

Reality Imagine Fool Deception Awake

Author:Zhuangzi

“If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.”

Ifs Giving Helping Care Used Lost Interest Pleasure Imagine Fool Bed Therapy Relative Medication

Author:Dick Cavett

“What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.”

Government Social Term Justice Fantasy Hell Imagine Fool Drug Social Justice Inspired Dare Meaningful Income Bureaucrats Thug

Author:Ted Nugent