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Wilder Side of Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde

BioData:

  • Full Name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • DoB: 16 October 1854
  • PoB: Dublin, Ireland
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Language Spoken: English, French
  • Death: 30 November 1900 (aged 46)
  • Education:  Trinity College, Dubln, Magdalen College, Oxford
  • Spouse: Constance Lloyd d. 1898
  • Notable Work:  The Importance of Being Ernest; The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilder Side of Oscar Wilde

A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain.

– Oscar Wilde

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A man’s face is his autobiography.  A woman’s face is her work of fiction.  – Oscar Wilde

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After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relative.
– Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde

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All art is quite useless.

– Oscar Wilde

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist.  It lacks imperfection.
~Oscar Wilde
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Anybody can make history.  Only  a great man can write it.

– Oscar Wilde

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
– Oscar Wilde

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

– Oscar Wilde

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them, rarely if ever, do they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

– Oscar Wilde

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original viture.  It is through disobedience that progress ha been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

– Oscar Wilde

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

– Oscar Wilde

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

– Oscar Wilde

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

~Oscar Wilde

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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
~Oscar Wilde
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.  ~Oscar Wilde

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I have the simplest tastes. I’m always satisfied with the best.

– Oscar Wilde

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good.  But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

– Oscar Wilde

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If one hears bad music it is one’s duty to drown it in conversation.
– from The Picture of Dorian Gray

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If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.
~Oscar Wilde
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If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
from The Importance of Being Earnest.

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I like to do all the talking myself.  It saves time, and prevents arguments.

– Oscar Wilde

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

– Oscar Wilde

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I suppose publishers are untrustworthy. They certainly always look it.
– Oscar Wilde

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
—Oscar Wilde

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I can resist everything except temptation.
– Oscar Wilde

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
– Oscar Wilde

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.  Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

– Oscar Wilde

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Men always want to be a woman’s first love.  Women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.
– Oscar Wilde
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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

– Oscar Wilde

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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
~Oscar Wilde
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are.  If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
~Oscar Wilde

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Now and then it is a joy to have one’s table red with wine and roses.
– Oscar Wilde

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One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
~Oscar Wilde

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your  life.

– Oscar Wilde

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art.  Whatever is popular is wrong.

– Oscar Wilde

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths.  Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.  To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres.
~Oscar Wilde

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them.
– Oscar Wilde
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
– Oscar Wilde

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.  (LOL, ;)Jean)

– Oscar Wilde

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The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

– Oscar Wilde

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
– Oscar Wilde

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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
-Oscar Wilde

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

– Oscar Wilde

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
– Oscar Wilde
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

– Oscar Wilde

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

– Oscar Wilde

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is not more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
– Oscar Wilde

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True friends stab you in the front.
– Oscar Wilde

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde

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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.  ~Oscar Wilde

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course language.

– Oscar Wilde

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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

– Oscar Wilde

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
– Oscar Wilde

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‘‘ Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.’’

– Oscar Wilde

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Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
– Oscar Wilde

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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
-Oscar Wilde

Albert Einstein – General Relativity

Did you know? Geniuses Global Philosophers

Scientist

Albert Einstein – General Relativity

14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955

Albert Einstein

Did you know?

  • Albert Einstein, a Jew but not an Israeli citizen, was offered the presidency in 1952 but turned it down, stating “I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel, and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. (Wikipedia)
  • Einstein considered socks as redundant.  He never wore them even in formal functions!
  • His IQ is supposed to be between 160 and 180
  • His brain was removed upon his death and dissected into 240 pieces, most are stored at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.  Two pieces are supposed to be on loan to the British Museum.

 

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
– Einstein
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Albert Einstein

Are you wise or clever?

Albert Einstein is not only a clever scientists but very wise as well. His philosophies are inspirational.

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex … It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
– Albert Einstein
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
~Albert Einstein
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“Don’t have any children. It makes divorce so much more complicated.”
– Einstein
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Everything should be made as simple as possible – but no simpler.
– Albert Einstein

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
- Albert Einstein
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.”
- Albert Einstein</span>

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<span style="font-size: 13px;">It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.</span>

~Albert Einstein
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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
- Albert Einstein
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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
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"How do I work? I grope."
- Einstein
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How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
- Einstein
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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
- Einstein

I don’t know what weapons World War Three will be fought with, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones.
– Einstein

I never thing of the future. It comes soon enough.
- Einstein

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
– Einstein

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
- Einstein
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“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
~Einstein

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“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.”
<i>- Albert Einstein</i>
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Einstein
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”I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
<i>- Albert Einstein</i>
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In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
<i>Albert Einstein</i>

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

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”Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
<i>- Albert Einstein</i>

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist.  They are wrong: it is the character

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“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
– Albert Einstein

<pre><code>No amount of experimentation can prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
– Einstein
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The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
– Einstein
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The hardest thing to understand is why we can understand anything at all.
– Einstein
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
– Einstein

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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
– Einstein
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
– Albert Einstein

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The environment is everything that isn't me.
– Einstein
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The only reason for time is so that everything does not happen at once.
– Albert Einstein
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The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
—Albert Einstein
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
– Eisntein

We would take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
– Einstein
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
– Einstein

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up.  But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
– Einstein
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When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.
– Einstein
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When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth.
~Albert Einstein
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With fame I become more and more stupid, which, of course, is a very common phenomenon.
– Albert Einstein
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“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
~ Albert Einstein

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Plato – The Thinker

Geniuses
Plato arguably the greatest ancient Greek philosopher.

Plato arguably the greatest ancient Greek philosopher.

I read somewhere that Plato is one of those people who eat to live rather than someone who live to eat.

According to him, the most important part of the meal is the conversation rather than the food.

He would have made an easy-going dinner guest.  Beans on toast would probably been sufficient for him.

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Plato – The Thinker

Always be kind for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
-Plato
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
-Plato,
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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
~Plato

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“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.”
~Plato
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Be kind; Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
– Plato
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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
~Plato
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“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
~Plato
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Even the gods love jokes.
– Plato

He was a wise man who invented beer.
– Plato

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state ?
~Plato

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
– Plato

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“I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.”
~Plato

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In the world of knowledge, the last thing to be perceived and only with great difficult is the essential For of Goodness … Without having had a vision of this Form no one can act with wisdom, either in his own life or in matters of state.
– Plato
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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”
―Plato

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“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
―Plato

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NOT only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
– Plato.

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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
– Plato
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.

~Plato
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
~Plato

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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
~Plato
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
~Plato
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Then not only an old man but also a drunkard becomes a second time a child.
~Plato
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The friendship which arises from contraries is horrible and coarse, and has often no tie of communion; but that which arises from likeness is gentle, and has a tie of communion, which lasts through life.
—Plato.
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The price good men pay the indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
– Plato
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The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.
– Plato
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.  This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
– Plato

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
~Plato
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Wise men speak becasue they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
– Plato
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Wonder is what the philosopher endures most; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.
– PLATO

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“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”
~Plato

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When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
– Plato

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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
– Plato

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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
– Plato

Madonna Talks….

Dance

images (2)I love Madonna.  I remember all her songs in the 80s.  In fact they are my favourite ones.  I love Material Girl, Crazy for You and Like a Virgin.  Madonna was what the 80s was all about, big hair, bright blue, if rather garish, eye-shadows, big shoulder pads, huge tinkling earrings, lots of chunky bracelets, pop socks, and many more.

Yes, I grew up or sadly became older with Madonna.  But she is an icon and I am not! LOL

Let’s hear from our icon, who is still going strong in the 21st Century.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.
– Madonna
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Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as sheep.
– Madonna
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Children always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit detectors.
– Madonna
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Everyone probably thinks that I’m a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I’d rather read a book.
– Madonna
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Having money is just the best thing in the world.
– Madonna

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I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want.  If that makes me a bitch, OK.
– Madonna
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I am a survivor, I am like a cockroach, you just can’t get rid of me.
– Madonna
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I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
– Madonna
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I have the same goal I’ve had since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
– Madonna

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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly outdated institution it is.
– Madonna

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At a recent Hello! issue, Madonna was quoted:

“Love does change your life. What we also have to understand is happiness lies in our own hands, not someone else’s.”

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Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.
-Madonna

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When I get down on my knees, It is not to pray.
– Madonna
(When I get down on my knees, I find it hard to get up again. LOL)

 

Inside the Mind of Woody Allen

FILM Global Philosophers

Woody Allen, The Brainiac

Woody Allen is arguarbly the most prolific film-maker of all times.  He acts, he directs and he writes his films and they turn out quite brilliant too, real classics.

Woody is also a master of one-liners.  Below are some of his quotable quotes:

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
– Woody Allen

‘Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?’
– Woody Allen
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Hey, don’t knock masturbation! It’s sex with someone I love.

– Woody Allen

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‘I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.’
– Woody Allen
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If my films make even one more person feel miserable, I’ll feel I’ve done my job.
– Woody Allen

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I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
—Woody Allen
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I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it’s fantastic.
– Woody Allen

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‘I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.’
– Woody Allen
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I had a rough marriage … It was partially my fault that we got a divorce.  I had a lousy attitude toward her.  For the first year of our marriage, I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal all the time.  We used to argue and fight and finally we decided we should either take a vacation or get a divorce.  We discussed it very maturely and we decided on the divorce because we felt we had a limited amount of money to spend.  A vacation in Bermuda is over in two weeks but a divorce is something that you always have.
– Woody Allen

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Is sex dirty? Only if it’s done right.
– Woody Allen

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I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception.  I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said “no”.
– Woody Allen

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I’m not the heroic type.  I was beaten up by Quakers.
– Woody Allen

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I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.
– Woody Allen

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It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
– Woody Allen

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If only God would give me some clear sign!  Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
– Woody Allen

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I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year…for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
– Woody Allen
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In Beverly Hills … they don’t throw thier garbage away. They make it into television shows.
– Woody Allen
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‘Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.’
– Woody Allen
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My brain … it’s my second favourite organ.
– Woody Allen

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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
– Woody Allen

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‘Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.’
– Woody Allen
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Some guy hit my fender the other day, and I said unto him, “Be fruitful, and multiply.”  But not in those words.
– Woody Allen

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Some men are heterosexual, and some men are homosexual, and some men don’t think about sex at all.  They become lawyers.
– Woody Allen
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‘Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.’
– Woody Allen
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Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as meaningless experiences go, it’s pretty damned good.
– Woody Allen

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‘Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.’
– Woody Allen
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‘There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?’
– Woody Allen
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The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter.  If it turns out that there is God, I don’t think that he’s evil.  But the worst thing you can say about him is that he’s basically an underachiever.  After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
– Woody Allen (Love and Death film)

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‘The two biggest myths about me are that I`m an intellectual, because I wear these glasses, and that I`m an artist because my films lose money. Those two myths have been prevalent for many years.’
– Woody Allen
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The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife – a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it’s being held.
– Woody Allen
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To me nature is … spiders and bugs and big fish eating little fish and plants eating plants, and animals eating … It’s like an enormous restaurant, that’s the way I see it.
– Woody Allen

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‘To you, I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the loyal opposition’.
– Woody Allen
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“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”
― Woody Allen
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When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
-WOODY ALLEN

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