Mark Rowlands Quotes

#1. Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

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#2. Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

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#3. On every long run that has gone right, there comes a point where thinking stops and thoughts begin.

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#4. What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.

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#5. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement.

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#6. What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.

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#7. Pheidippides ran twenty-six miles from Marathon to Athens with news of the Greek victory.

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