Quotes - Jaime Lynnette (Smyrna, GA) Showing 1-14 of 14

#1

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy

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#2

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

tags: philosophy, religion, science

2744 likes

#3

“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

tags: intellectuals, intelligence, philosophy, scholars

2725 likes

#4

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. ”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: drugs, philosophy, politics

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#5

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: adults, antoine-de-saint-exupery, children, philosophy, the-little-prince

2641 likes

#6

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology

2648 likes

#7