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«There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.»
Author: Anthony de Mello
| About:
Happiness,
Unhappiness
| Keywords:
commonly, false belief, occurs, unhappiness, widespread
«The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| Keywords:
commonly, defunct, economist, economists, philosophers, practical, ruled
«The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accurate, called, commonly, commonly called, cynicism, got, observation, power, The Power
«The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
calls, Christian church, Christian Churches, commonly, earn, every so often, heresy, ineffective, letting, preaching, root, salvation, schism, suffered, The Christian, work through
«That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood»
«The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accurate, called, commonly, commonly called, cynicism, have-not, observation, The Power
«The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.»
«Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.»
«The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.»
«The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amounts, behalf, censure, censures, commonly, implies, Say Anything, tacit, The Silence, treachery
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