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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-08), “The Hero as Prophet,” Home House, Portman Square, London

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Lecture (1840-05-08), "The Hero as Prophet," Home House, Portman Square, London - Carlyle, Thomas | WIST Quotations

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. The lecture notes were collected by Carlyle into On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History, Lecture 2 (1841).

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A quotation from Bertrand Russell

A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of “pleasure.” That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)

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Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 "What Makes People Unhappy?" (1930) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

A man may feel so completely thwarted that he seeks no form of satisfaction, but only distraction and oblivion. He then becomes a devotee of "pleasure." That is to say, he seeks to make life bearable by becoming less alive. Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it…

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A quotation from Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist

Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893)]

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Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893)] - Goethe, Johann von | WIST Quotations

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. Goethe's use of this phrase comes up twice in the Maxims and Reflections. Alternate translations: From Art and Antiquity, Vol. 5, #3, Individual Points (1826): Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit. (Source (German)) Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in…

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