Some goats I like

I've been tagged by Silverine. For the past 4 years or thereabouts, I've been in the habit of taking notes from books I read in the hope of documenting the worthwhile because I usually forget everything. Such being the case it is naturally impossible to take on the task of listing a mere 5 quotations as per the rules of the tag. Today, I was going through some of the notes I've made over the years and picked out a handful of the choicest from what little I managed to go through. I am pleased with the final collection I have assembled here because it covers a fairly interesting range of subjects, and that is very satisfactory considering I'm only culling out from a tiniest collection of my notes. A note of caution: The content of the quotations aren't necessarily ideas I subscribe to. They are merely quotations that appeal to me.

• Friedrich Nietzsche’s beautiful description of Arthur Schopenhauer:
  He was absolutely alone, with not a single friend; and between one and none there lies an infinity.

• Arthur Schopenhauer:
  Most of our suffering lies in retrospect or anticipation; pain itself is brief. How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than death itself.

• Arthur Schopenhauer:
  Only a philosopher can be happy in marriage, and philosophers do not marry.

• Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels(Note: Read the book to know definition of ‘Yahoo’):
  A soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.

• Arthur Schopenhauer:
  We are unhappy married, and unmarried we are unhappy. We are unhappy when alone, and unhappy when in society: we are like hedge-hogs clustering for warmth, uncomfortable when too closely packed, and yet miserable when kept apart. It is all very funny.

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• Sriram Sivaramakrishnan:
  Is quantum mechanics Ψ-Φ ?

• Anjali Philip:
  I learnt to cook at the tender age of 8 months, when I lifted a jar of salt and emptied it into a bowl of chicken curry.

• Socrates:
  Tragedy itself is proof of the fact that the Greeks were not pessimists .

• Bertrand Russell:
  We think of education as the transmission of a certain body of settled knowledge, when it should be rather the development of a scientific habit of mind.
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• George Santayana:
  Religion is human experience interpreted by human imagination.
  
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• William Somerset Maugham:
  The most important thing that money can buy is time.

The formating has been terrible because of my lack of familiarity with the blogger tools. Is there a way to directly insert a word formatted document in here?

I enjoyed going through my notes and must go through some more again some time. I tag:
Myself
Babe
Jk
Ramku
Kiran

I am not sure if even these 4 have RSS feeds to my blog. So if you are reading this and you have a blog ID, and you've left a comment, then you are tagged as well.