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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices, telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown our the faint sounds emitted from our souls, and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
Our theories stand. We both see clearly; we know what’s right. Even if it’s not always possible to act on it, don’t you think it matters to be able to call things by their true names?
p. 386
Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.
p. 72
“I thought I would be safe here.”
“You are.” For the first time, he touched her, touched her hand. “Safe from everything but paper and ink. Please. Put those down.”
“Paper and ink.” She clutched the books to her ample chest. “They’re not nothing, Alec. They’re pretty much everything to me: the embodiment of ideas, of thought—of free and open thought. Of inquiry and supposition. All of it.”
p. 386
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
p. 200
Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, “Don’t you worry about being called names?” retorted, “Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?”
p. 112
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
p. 163
Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?
p. 65
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.
p. 92
Not everyone is worth listening to.
p. 33
It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
p. 25
True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
p. 33
