Oscar Wilde Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Believe Quotes

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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Circumstances should never alter principles!

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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Progress is the realization of utopia.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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Life is a great disappointment.

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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