519 quotes found
“One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.”
“Some champions are born others are forged!”
“There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression o...”
“You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky.”
“It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.”
“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”
“People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.”
“If perception is limited by experience and knowledge, what deems my actions “correct” or my thoughts as moral?”
“it is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no sea’s repose; I pass from waking agonies… to the semiconscious trance of torment in which the smaller, earlier, deeper rings of the brain kno...”
“I like the idea of feeling small. Sometimes life can seem bigger than you, you know? But knowing you're less than a speck in the whole scheme of things takes the pressure off, sort of.”
“Promise me you won’t sacrifice your happiness for something so cheap as acceptance. Find your courage.”
“The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.”
“But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other”
“Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.”
“One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.”
“Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed," he said. "And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they ...”
“[M]y determined and strenuous endeavours to take in absolutely nothing of what I had regarded as entirely the most irrelevant part of my schooling had patently not met with total success”
“No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.”
“That's what you do when you love someone. You accept their baggage and deal with the shit life throws at you along the way. You just learn to become a team and deal with it together. That's the onl...”
“When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.”
