Leopold Benedict

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Leopold Benedict’s Quotes

“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
― John Dewey

tags: fake-quotes, false-quotes

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“I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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“A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.”
― Amartya Sen

tags: economics, justice, society

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“Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.”
― W.N.P. Barbellion, The Journal of a Disappointed Man

tags: life, melancholy, philosophy, youth

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