"To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self."
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"Styx Haiku Boatman refusesto paddle me down the Styx.'No carry-on baggage."
"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
"My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]"
"Life sucks, and then you die..."
"The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)"
"The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image."
"We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause."
"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."
"Spooning [10w] Love means tasting her spaghetti sauce on a wooden spoon."
"I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith."
"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."
"I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful."
"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
"Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous."
"I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success."
"Jigga, Kells, Not Guilty"
"Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive."
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
"I don't deserve you. I'm not made for relationships. I know I'm going to fuck this up. I'm going to drive you away or do something to hurt you, and you'll be added to my list of people I screwed over. You should walk away now."
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