>Either/Or

>Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
-Kierkegaard

>The Critick

>Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics – they desire our blood, not our pain.
-Nietzsche

>Playfulness

>The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
-Jung

>Hope v. Despair

>Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.
-Elias Canetti

>Books

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No furniture so charming as books.
-Sydney Smith

>Time & Energy

>One of the conditions for reading what is good is that we must not read what is bad; for life is short and time and energy are limited.
-Schopenhauer

>Memoirs on the Skins of a Mole

>The presence of an idea is like that of a loved one. We imagine that we shall never forget it, and that the beloved can never become indifferent to us; but out of sight, out of mind! The finest thought runs the risk of being irretrievably forgotten if it is not written down.
-Schopenhauer

>Three Educations

>We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
-Montesquieu

>The Unthirsty

>Ye can lade a man up to th’university, but ye can’t make him think.
-Finley Peter Dunne

>Half-Truths

>A wise man’s question contains half the answer.
-Solomon Ibn Gabirol