211 quotes found
“To live is to be haunted.”
“Mankind needs more empathy.”
“Consciousness of unconsciousness”
“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
“I am a mask, concealing the real.”
“It's easy to win. Anybody can win.”
“I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yours...”
“Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.”
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is t...”
“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
“This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of rea...”
“Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.”
“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”
“Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.”
“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”
“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go.But finally,the grief goes away and you phase ba...”
“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you fr...”
“The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?”
“They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.”
“but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fa...”
“The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathematics. War is a part of our lives, a career, a respected vocation. Bright, alert young men and w...”
“There were many human groups that did not go to war; the Eskimos never grasped the idea at all, and the American Indians never took to it well. But these dissenters were wiped out, and a cultural p...”
“What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak, if he could see it, the grinning, aged skull? What would there be for him to sa...”
“It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.”
