Siddharth Nishar

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ”
― Will Durant

“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays