146 quotes found
“I want you to write down your blessings.”
“Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.”
“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“The world is a merrier place to live if people do things more out of sincerity, not just out of formality.”
“I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.”
“...the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them, even as all else had been lost: dignity.This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lie...”
“Understandings not enough. Understandings from outside; merely a function of the mind. [. . .] To enter, thats the secret. To become the bridge, to crawl into its sap, to sway with it, to rot over ...”
“Fate is a lazy mans excuse for avoiding curiosity.”
“Evidence is the debris of a careless mind.”
“Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form.”
“Now here's the thing about being a little off-center; you're never sure if you're a bona fide loon or if you have insight that other people don't have.You have to navigate through life using a kind...”
“What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he has created to cover his ignorance. These concepts must be destroyed. One ...”
“When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. You will ...”
“I knew everything! Yet, I'm still not perfect.”
“It seems like all the time people are making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true visions when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being somethi...”
“It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.”
“There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a ...”
“It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.”
“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in hi...”
