“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
Winston S. Churchill book The Story of the Malakand Field Force
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter X.
Early career years (1898–1929)
Variant: There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 85e
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Source: The Complete Essays
Albert Camus book The Myth of Sisyphus
"Hope and the Absurd in the work of Franz Kafka"
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Guardian Camwar, in Ch. 4 : the cooper<!-- p. 42 -->
Source: The Visitor (2002)
Context: You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”
Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) English poet
First Century, sect. 8.
Centuries of Meditations