Quoteiac

The words that stopped you mid-page. Now on a shirt.
Literary quote apparel & journals for readers, thinkers & people who underline things. Every word sourced.

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“The truth is rarely pure and never
simple.”

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of
Being Earnest, 1895. Eight words.
Still the sharpest thing in the room.

[Quote Investigator® @QuoteResearch]

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

What is the provenance of the saying above: Rabindranath Tagore? Rabbinic Saying? Arabic Proverb? Anonymous?

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Father’s Day gifts for the Dad that reads. And thinks. https://t.co/7WdqemKT14

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He already has the books. You can’t
out-read him.

But there’s something he can’t buy
himself — someone remembering
which line mattered to him.

A guide for that dad.

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The man who went to the woods to find out what mattered:
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Thoreau moved to Walden Pond on July 4, 1845.
The date was not accidental.

He wasn't arguing everyone should live in a cabin.
The cabin was the laboratory.
Not the conclusion.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

My new library does not have tall bookshelves, intentionally so all books are in easy reach.
Non #Lindy books are ditched except those that can be useful are in a hallway not in the main rooms.
[Same material as Umberto Eco's but shorter]

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”

-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable

“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”

-powerful
-commanding
-honest

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On taste, movement-making, and the real human moat:
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In 1993, Rick Rubin signed Johnny Cash. Cash was 61, dropped, written off.

The industry called it a vanity project. The albums that followed are now considered the defining work of his career.

No algorithm takes a cultural risk.

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'Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.'

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Written in 1888. One of the last things he did before his collapse.

He wasn't writing about exercise. He was writing about what happens to thinking when the body stops moving

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Don't miss any of these! Sooooo good!

[Philosophy Sage @philosophysage]

I STUDIED 50 PEOPLE WHO SEEM "LUCKY" IN LIFE.

None of them journal. Or wake at 5am. Or have a "system."

But They All Do These 12 Things Religiously:

1. They don't wait for the weekend to live.

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Organic cotton, if that matters to you — and Rilke, if that matters more:
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"I live my life in circles that grow wide and endlessly unroll."

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours

He finished it in 1903. Sat on it for two years. Wasn't sure it was meant to be read.

Not progress. Not a destination. A life that keeps expanding past its own edges. 👇

[Naval @naval]

If it’s not one of the best books you’ve ever read, don’t read it.

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The kintsugi seam on the design runs through the exact hinge of that sentence:
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"…so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
— William James, Principles of Psychology, 1890

Twelve years. 1,400 pages. Buried in the chapter on attention.

The ability to ignore is not inattention. It's what makes thought possible.

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The geometry of the mystery t-shirt holes — and why it keeps happening:
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The small holes near the bottom of your favorite cotton t-shirt have nothing to do with moths.

Or your washing machine. Or detergent.