Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Thinking Quotes

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next...

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next...

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how...

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how...

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas...

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things...

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things...

You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Action is character.

Action is character.

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or...

And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or...

I may not be a smart man but I know what love is

I may not be a smart man but I know what love is

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we...

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we...