Notable Quotable 378

Feb 07, 2025

It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.

- Max Stirner

Life is a journey. How we travel is really up to us. We can just flow with the tide or follow our own dreams.

- Paulo Coelho

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

- Thucydides

Let each citizen contribute their natural talents or acquired skills to the greater benefit of all in the community.

- Michael Tellinger

Every economist knows that minimum wages cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, that's a definition.

- Milton Friedman

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Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it necessary?

Is it kind?

- Rumi

Within that household the human spirit has roof and hearth. Outside it is the night.

- Hilaire Belloc

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

- Charles Dickens

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

I sit beside the fire and think

Of all that I have seen

Of meadow flowers and butterflies

In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer

In autumns that there were

With morning mist and silver sun

And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think

Of how the world will be

When winter comes without a spring