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«Women are happier in the love they inspire than in that which they feel; men are just the contrary»
«When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure»
Author: Peter Marshall
| About:
Difficulty,
Life
| Keywords:
Contraries, contrary, diamonds, difficulties, grow, long, oaks, pressure, pressured, remind, strong, The Diamond, The Diamonds, Too Much Pressure, under, winds
«When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
confusion, contrary, insincerity, professed, professes, professing, symbols
«We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.»
Author: Paul Valery
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Self-love
| Keywords:
condemn, contrary, losing, mixture, mixtures, permanently, prevents, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, pursues, self-loving, selfishness, self love, wont, wont to
«With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which st»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
active, affairs, AT ST, ceaseless, continually, contrary, on the contrary, renewed, resembles, suffice, sufficed, suffices
«What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.»