art and arts
‘AESTHETIC’ – ART AND BEAUTY – ART AS INTOXICATION – FREEDOM IN ART – ART AND LIFE – THE ARTIST – IMITATION and STEALING etc – KNOWLEDGE – PRACTICAL and TECHNICAL – KNOWLEDGE and LOVE – ACADEMIES – ORIGINALITY – TALENT AND GENIUS – GENIUS – EXPRESSION – EMOTION and EXPRESSION – ART and MORALITY – ART, VALUE, VALUES – ART AS EXPERIENCE – ART AS METAPHYSICS – ART AS WORLD-MAKING – ART AND IMAGINATION – ART AND SCIENCE – SEEING – PERSONAL STYLE – PAINTING – POETRY – MUSIC – CHESS – CRITICS and CRITICISM
life
GOOD vs TRUTH – EXPERIENCE – SEEING ONLY OURSELVES – ENOUGH, OR TOO MUCH – KNOWLEDGE and LOVE – PAST and FUTURE – CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, AGE – NOVELTY and FAMILIARITY – IMAGINATION and REALITY – THE WORLD AS STAGE – NATURE and SOUL, THE MANY and THE ONE, OBJECT and SUBJECT – MAN and ANIMAL – MY SELF and I – EGOTISM and SELF-LOVE – SELF-KNOWLEDGE – SELF and OTHERS – FRIENDSHIP – THE ART OF LIVING – HOW TO LIVE – THE GOOD LIFE – THE MOMENT – MAGIC/MIRACLES – CREATING A LIFE – PROBLEMS/LIVING A QUESTION – BEING YOURSELF – YOUR OWN WAY – THINKING FOR ONESELF – ORIGINALITY – ENTHUSIASM – THE ABOUNDING LIFE – VICTORY BY DEFEATS – JOY – HAPPINESS – CONVERSATION – PEOPLE/HUMAN NATURE – THE INSANITY OF HUMANITY – MAN AS CHILD – SELF-FULFILLING BELIEFS – HEAD and HEART – TASTE and TASTES – HABIT and HABITS – CONSISTENCY – CHARACTER – GREATNESS – LUCK, FATE, FORTUNE, OPPORTUNITY – OPTIMISM and PESSIMISM – HOPE – PASSIONS/EMOTIONS/FEELINGS – DESIRE, WANTS, HAPPINESS ETC – KINDNESS – LOVE – BEAUTY – LAUGHTER, HUMOUR, COMEDY, SATIRE – SHAME – SNOBBERY – PEDANTRY – FEAR – SUSPICION – ENVY – HATRED – MEN – WOMEN – THE SEXES – LOVE, RELATIONSHIPS and MARRIAGE – FAMILY – BEAUTY – PLEASURE – VALUES and VALUE JUDGEMENTS – GOOD and EVIL – THE GOOD OF EVIL/THE BAD – THE GOOD OF LIMITATION – ETHICS and MORALITY – VIRTUE and THE VIRTUES – HUMILITY – PRUDENCE – IDEALS – WISDOM – FOLLY OF WISDOM – FOLLY – VANITY – IGNORANCE – CANT – HYPOCRISY – WISDOM OF FOLLY – THOUGHT and PERCEPTION – THINKING – QUESTION and ANSWER – LANGUAGE – SAYING/ASSERTION – UNSAYING – PRESUPPOSITIONS – NAMES AND THINGS – WORLD, WORLDS – RULES – IMAGINATION – METAPHORS and CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS – FACTS – BELIEF and BELIEFS – PERSUASION – MEANING – SUBJECTIVE and OBJECTIVE – REASON and REASONING – PROOF, PROBABILITY, EVIDENCE – THE IRRATIONAL – TRUTH – FALSEHOOD/ERROR – FALLACIES – LIES – KNOWLEDGE – UNDERSTANDING – INTELLIGENCE – ACTION – CAUSATION – PURPOSE, ENDS and MEANS – FREE WILL and DETERMINISM – HUMAN SOCIETY – LISTENING and SPEAKING – DISAGREEMENTS – JUSTICE and INJUSTICE – DUTY – PUBLIC OPINION – CONFORMITY – PUBLIC LIFE – PUBLIC vs PRIVATE – WORK – WORK AND PLAY – RICHES AND POVERTY – LEARNING and TEACHING – CULTURE – CLOTHES
civilization
MODERN WESTERN CIVILIZATION – EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATIONS – CUSTOM, LAW, SUPERSTITION – SPECIALIZATION, EXPERTS – THE “NATURAL”, THE “RETURN TO NATURE”, THE “ARTIFICIAL” – WAITING and DELIBERATION – PROGRESS – PROPERTY – THE CRUSADES – NATIONS, NATIONALITY, NATIONALISM – ECONOMICS – INDUSTRIALISM – NEWSPAPERS, NEWS, JOURNALISM, INFORMATION, DEMOCRACY – MONEY – COMMERCE, BUSINESS, SELLING – CAPITALISM, COMMODITY THINKING, GREED and CORPORATISM – THE ENLIGHTENMENT and 18TH C – AFFLUENZA – “DEVELOPMENT” – WAR and WEAPONS – WAR and RELIGION – USA – HISTORY – MAKERS OF HISTORY
books and people
ON BOOKS – THE SCHOLAR – (BOOK) LEARNING – ON WRITERS – ON WRITINGS – ON WRITING – PROSE AND POETRY – FICTION and NOVELS – ESSAY and APHORISM – READING – BIOGRAPHY – AUTOBIOGRAPHY – SOCRATES – ERASMUS – MONTAIGNE – SHAKESPEARE – ROUSSEAU – BURKE – LICHTENBERG – HAZLITT – WALTER SCOTT – CARLYLE – EMERSON – THOREAU – R. L. STEVENSON – OSCAR WILDE – WILLIAM JAMES – SHAW – SANTAYANA – BERTRAND RUSSELL
politics
POWER – LAW – GOVERNMENT – FREEDOM/LIBERTY – LIBERALISM – POLITICIANS – PARTIES and PARTY SPIRIT – DEMOCRACY – DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
maths
science
THEORIES/HYPOTHESES – DISCOVERY
philosophy
“ONE’S PHILOSOPHY”/PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE – PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT and METHOD – PSYCHOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHIES – MORAL PHILOSOPHY – POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY – PHILOSOPHERS and PHILOSOPHIES – PLATO – IDEALISM – EMPIRICISM – EMPIRICISM and IDEALISM – ROMANTICISM – EGOTISM IN PHILOSOPHY – GERMAN PHILOSOPHY – KANT – HEGEL – MARXISM – SCHOPENHAUER – NIETZSCHE – SYSTEMS – PHILOSOPHY and POETRY – PHILOSOPHY and SCIENCE – PHILOSOPHY and HISTORY
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Religion, superstition, magic
Unverified quotes
Fake quotes
…There is no thought which is not seed as well as fruit… – Emerson, journals, 1826?
This Book is my Savings Bank. I grow richer because I have somewhere to deposit my earnings; and fractions are worth more to me because corresponding fractions are waiting here that shall be made integers by their addition. – Emerson, journals, Nov-Dec 1833
A writer appears to more advantage in the pages of another book than in his own. In his own he waits as a candidate for your approbation; in another’s he is a lawgiver. – Emerson, Quotation and Originality
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. – Emerson (VIII 176)
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. – Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary
QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated. – Ambrose Bierce, Devil’s Dictionary
The maxims of men reveal their hearts. – Vauvenargues
Collected 2008-2015. There are also 2 long pages of quotes I collected 1992-2003 online here