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4,096 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“This is an award-winning product, and similar to the Wabi, need not just be for baby products.”
— Holden Desalles, What's The Best UV Sterilizer? UV Light Sanitizers For Phone And Home
“We’re all feeling anxious and afraid in the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s becoming harder for people to get masks to wear to work (essential businesses and workers only!!)”
— Shop Catalog, Cute Face Masks — The Best Fashionable Face Masks For Staying Safe- Shop Catalog
“It is perfectly true that neither you nor I can hope to set up a program for activity which is at all likely to be feasible ten or twenty thousand years from now. But it is also true that unless we habitually feel our activity and decisions to be somehow involved in the long-range future, just as we know know them to be involved with the far, far distant past, we can no longer make decisions which will be very real in the twentieth century present.”
— Walter Ong, American Catholic Crossroads
Tagged: Human Planning, Planning
“For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts, but to understand how other men have acted in the past, so that he can compare his own situation with theirs.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: History, Limits of Academic Study
“Even the freest man has his bonds”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Freedom
“One must seek another certitude beyond the world, beyond the homeland; one must refuse to join the chorus of the demonically and create one’s own homeland, one’s own world, outside the present time.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Being Otherworldly In The World, Citadels Beyond, Outside of Time
“In our time, the miracles of technology have morphed into the most horrific elements of destruction, so elements of the Renaissance and humanism which at first seemed to offer salvation proved a lethal poison.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne
Tagged: Where The Saving Power Grows, Progression of Progress, The Essence of Technology, Impossible Progress
“When there is more space, the soul opens up.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Clearity , Openness, The Clearing
“We too need to stand the test, to endure one of the most horrifying collapses of humanity, which follows directly one of its most magnificent periods of advancement.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Part and Parcel, Zeniths of Civilization, Civilization and Barbarism
“For one of life's mysterious laws shows that we only notice the authentic and essential values when it's too late: youth, once it has fled, health at the moment it abandons us, freedom of the soul, that most precious essence, at the very moment when it is taken from us, or has already been taken.”
— Stefan Zweig, Montaigne(Pushkin Collection)
Tagged: Youth