#not

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#another #architect #attentive #charming #deeply

What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#beginning #century #common #end #era

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #consent #exists #geological #notice

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. ↗

— Will Durant

#cannot #moralist #statesman

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. ↗

— Will Durant

#cure #little #little money #money #nothing

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

#discovery #education #everything #i #ignorance

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. ↗

— Will Durant

#ages #cannot #ego #go #his

I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great; I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning. ↗

— Jo Durie

#again #because #become #beginning #coaching

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#cannot #causes #conditions #consequently #each