Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.


Robert Anton Wilson

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Conciseness is the sister of talent.
ANTON CHECKHOV
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors...
ANTON CHEKHOV
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk ...
ANTON CHEKHOV
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
ANTON CHEKHOV
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Man is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOV
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV
I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it...
ANTON CORBIJN
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
ANTON CORBIJN
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
ANTON CHEKHOV
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOV
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when yo...
ANTON CHEKHOV
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas do...
ANTON CHEKHOV
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squab...
ANTON CHEKHOV
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the...
ANTON CHEKHOV
To advise is not to compel.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOV
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
SUSAN ANTON
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
ANTON CHEKHOV
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOV
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOV
I don’t feel right about money. Remember, Anisim brought me new roubles and half roubles before th...
ANTON CHEKHOV
To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow...
ANTON CHEKHOV
Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Pete...
ANTON CHEKHOV
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chast...
ANTON CHEKHOV
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, ...
ANTON CHEKHOV
The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
ANTON SEIDL
Of course, experience strengthens one later.
ANTON SEIDL
Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
ANTON SEIDL
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its...
ANTON SEIDL
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing th...
ANTON SEIDL
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparent...
ANTON SEIDL
I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German ar...
ANTON SEIDL
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real ...
ANTON SEIDL
Composers are not all good conductors.
ANTON SEIDL
America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music school...
ANTON SEIDL