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“There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth' ... Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or less degree, the state of mind in which, after long labour, truth or beauty appears, or seems to appear, in a sudden glory – it may only be about some small matter, or it may be about the universe ... I think most of the best creative work, in art, in science, in literature, and in philosophy, has been the result of such a moment.”
― A History of Western Philosophy
― A History of Western Philosophy
“The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
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