#wit

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#beasts #does #every #give #his

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#affairs #alone #casual #detests #enough

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#am #beginning #being #fifty #formulated

We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling. ↗

— John Pistole

#airport #allows #beyond #checkpoint #concern

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#away #beast #emphasis #get #instead

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#believe #built #compounds #day #form

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. ↗

— Max Planck

#any #been #discovery #gone #knowledge

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong. ↗

— Robert Plant

#around #before #character #comprehend #creation

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards. ↗

— Robert Plant

#awards #cliche #crucial #drifting #i

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. ↗

— Plato

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