In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

Lewis H. Lapham

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Alexander Hamilton

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Thomas Traherne

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

Lenny Bruce

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

Success has always been a great liar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

Steve Wynn

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Lydia Maria Child

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

Aristotle

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