89 quotes found
“Where there is hope there is life.”
“He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.”
“Will is a gift from God, desire from the devil.”
“Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.”
“A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.”
“We have to believe in free will, we have no other choice.”
“The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.”
“There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.”
“We have created a world we dont like, dont understand and dont trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.”
“Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. Id be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.”
“My problem as a writer is thatwhenever I meet someone for the first timeI immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. A...”
“Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.”
“True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.”
“A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.”
“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”
“Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.”
“You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.”
“Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.”
“What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a s...”
“Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you cant explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.”
“Feminism is not inherently bourgeois, but bourgeois feminism is the only one given voice in our society. That is why womens issues discuss glass ceilings rather than dirt floors.”
“Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psy...”
“A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.”
“To be myself, to follow my desires to the best of my abilities. Thats the only end worth shooting for. Success and failure lie beyond us, they may be signposts that direct us, but they are foolish ...”
“Never in mankinds history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.”
