“Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 214 of 303
“I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.”
“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.”
“Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.”
“All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.”
“Continuous eloquence is tedious.”
“Custom determines what is agreeable.”
“The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.”
“If a soldier or labourer complain of the hardship of his lot, set him to do nothing.”
“The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.”
“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.”
“The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.”
“The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and vigorous nutriment.”
“Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.”
“How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.”
“I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.”
“I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body.”
“Anything we were studying in school, like math, or understanding somebody's behavior outside of school, kind of worked its way into something I could understand by way of a musical experience I'd had or something I'd heard.”
“I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.”
“The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.”