“Art is creating something taking it from the future and seeing it in the present.”
“Beauty is any aspect of art, or anything, that makes an individual feel positive and happy.”
“Better to die from the unreal but pleasing beauty of art.”
“Nietzsche's philosophy contends that art is a way to avoid dying from truths. He argues that by engaging in it, we can create something that is not true and thus prevent ourselves from being overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of reality.”
“Poetry is a deep cry against social, economic and political injustice.”
“Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It's a retaliation to the industrial revolution, while people were gathering into cities, a few went back to nature.”
“Thoughts give birth to dreams like how culture gives birth to artists.”
“We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
“Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like foie gras.”
“My written and painted thoughts, for which alone I have colours, many colours, perhaps, many multicoloured softenings, and fifty yellows and browns and greens and reds.”
“A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”
“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.”
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.”
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. That is to say, real art takes no part in molding the social or moral identities of society, nor should it. Art had no moral responsibility. Art, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.”
“Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.”
“If there are winners then there must be losers, but it's not a zero sum game, because if you set out to better yourself then that's a net positive for the world.”
“The age you think the average person lives is the age you're going to die. It can't be any other way so plan accordingly.”
“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
“What you're made of? When you die where does your traits, quirks and personality go?”
“When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.”
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.”
“That these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“Intersectionality ~ theory of the overlapping of various social identities, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination experienced by an individual ~ race - gender - sexual orientation - class”
“Kings court ~ in life there are - kings - queens - princes - princesses - knights - dragons - gremlins ~ Ocean ~ sharks - whales - octopuses - crustations ~ you need each one of them for a fully functional ecosystem”
“Levels of reality ~ quantum - atomic - molecular - organic - individual - familial - social - cultural - country - global - universal”
“Race ~ red nature - brown gods - yellow kings - black warriors - white hero - first there was black, then brown, west white, east yellow, red, metalic”
“World rulers ~ babylon - persian - greeks - egyptians - mongols - china - romans - british - america”
Funny
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
“A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat.”
“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's relations.”
“Aim low, reach your goals, avoid disappointment.”
“All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.”
“All men are equal-all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.”
“America bombs everyone, but just make sure the jets are eco friendly.”
“Beat your son every day; you may not know why, but he will.”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
“Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question.”
“Bro over escaped the matrix.”
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
“Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet.”
“He got his good looks from his mother. She's a plastic surgeon.”
“I always take life with a grain of salt—plus a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila.”
“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
“I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.”
“I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?”
“I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.”
“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”
“I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished and sat down.”
“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.”
“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
“If we ate what we listened to we'd all be dead.”
“If you fall out of that window and break both your legs, don't come running to me.”
“If you're in heaven and I'm not there, then you're in the wrong place.”
“It's only unethical if you get caught.”
“Just once, I'd like for someone to call me 'sir' without adding 'you're making a scene.”
“Leave a better planet for our kids or leave better kids for our planet.”
“Me fail English? But that am un-possible!”
“My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.”
“Ninety percent of baseball is half mental.”
“No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”
“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
“Outside of a dog a book is mans best friends, inside of a dog its too dark to read.”
“Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.”
“Poets have hitherto been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
“Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.”
“Secret to staying young is lying about your age.”
“Shame, for lack of a better word, is good.”
“Sign in a store window: We buy old furniture, we sell antiques.”
“That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!”
“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.”
“The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.”
“The optimist who fell from a tall building said while passing each story 'all's well so far.”
“The second applicant was an engineer. He pulled out a slide rule and showed the answer to be between 3.999 and 4.001.”
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.”
“The West Side Boys just sounds funny.”
“There is not one female comedian who was beautiful as a little girl.”
“There's one way to find out if a man is honest-ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.”
“These are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.”
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
“Variety may be the spice of life, but monotony provides the groceries.”
“Wall street predicted nine out of the last five recessions.”
“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.”
“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
“When sign makers go on strike, is anyone written on their signs?”
“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'damn, that was fun.”
“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
“Whenever I watch tv and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”
“You can't pretend to be witty.”
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
“Im too afraid not to beleive in God especially on an airplane, look God I'm helping this old lady with her luggage, you're not going to let this plane crash are you?”
“The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
“Culture are things that separate us from animals, the opposite of nature is culture.”
“Culture encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.”
“Free speech absolutist is wrong because it invites someone to do hate: to yell fire in a crowded theatre.”
“If you get rid of free will, what's the point of free speech?”
“Let the kids enjoy their generations' drugs.”
“Morals is what is right or wrong to you; ethics is what is right or wrong to the group.”
“Most animals don't see color but we do, because we've evolved to see ripe fruit.”
“Root of racism is hate. Seeds from different regions grows with different features like skin color, eyes and hair. It's what's inside that counts.”
“Separated at birth. As twins travel through environment. The older you get the closer your IQ the more you are like biologically as opposed to your adopted parents.”
“That which increases the most amount of human flourishing.”
“The nagging ones are the ones that kept you from dying (wear shoes, don't eat that, don't forget this, etc.).”
“The steeper the dominance hierarchy the more homicides. The bigger gap the more unstable the society.”
“You can't force a group of people to do things, because it has enforcement cost. It's better if they do it on thier own free will.”
“I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.”
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways: either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
“The opposite of good is not evil. It is indifference. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
“Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.”
“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
“There are only two ways of life in the world: rotting and burning. Cowardly and greedy people choose the former; brave and selfless people choose the latter.”
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
“But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years—and it opens.”
“Just when everything seems lost; one has knocked on all doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years—and it opens.”
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
“History is written by the winners.”
“I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.”
“Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.”
“Quotation Books: To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.”
“The difference between a fairy tale and a war is that one starts 'Once upon a time.”
“The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is.”
“Usually people are just influenced by their generation, the history they are writing in, and the culture around them.”
“What is a mother? In the Brothers Karamazov there is a promiscuous lady who got pregnant and when the baby was born she put the baby in a box and hid it behind a wall. When cops arrived, they found 3 more boxes, would you call her a mother?”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
“Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people meticulous, natural philosophy makes people sophisticated, ethics makes people dignified, and logical embellishment makes people eloquent.”
“Then something woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is; and this we can contrive with an Elstir, with a Vinteuil; with men like these we do really fly from star to star.”
“The hero of my tale—whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will forever be beautiful—is truth.”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.”
“And she was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
“The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference means no reaction. If someone wants to hate me, he must first have feelings for me, otherwise he cannot hate me. So hatred can also make people communicate.”
“I don't want the best for you. I want the best for what wants the best for you, because you don't know what you want. I'm not on the side of you that's aiming towards your defeat. I'm on the side that's struggling towards the light. And that's the definition of love.”
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
“If the person you brought to the dance doesn't want to dance with you; you have to find another dancing partner before the night's over and the music stops.”
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
“Destiny gives a sense of familiarity.”
“Hume's 'is from ought': if you're a murderer should you be a murderer? If you're gay should you be gay?”
“Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.”
“If you can do and be anything anytime, everything is like nothing.”
“Live in a mode of being so meaningful that you won't notice your there.”
“Philosophies necessary lead to dead end, stuck on one idea in a well lit room of that idea.”
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
“The word 'philosophy' means 'the love of wisdom.' Wisdom is the possession of knowledge, experience, and good judgement. Yet knowledge itself is only information: wisdom is the use of knowledge to pursue the good life.”
“What if I told you we've already had this conversation and we will have it again in the future.”
“Why do bad things happen to good people?”
“Wisdom is the knowledge of eternal truths . Philosophy is love of knowledge.”
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
“Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
“This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!”
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!”
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live it once more and innumerable times more: and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!”
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up til now has consisted of—namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography.”
“There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself, how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.”
“A question arose in my mind: Was Kennedy a political genius who truly unleashed the forces of American liberalism, or was he merely a rat cunning enough to take advantage of the new medium of television in order to become the first 'television President'?”
“Democracy is the road to socialism.”
“Democracy is the worst form of government; except for all the others that have been tried.”
“It is better to seek peace than victory.”
“Only the most sincere people in the world can manage the great principles of the world and establish the great foundation of the world.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
“The more open-minded a society, the stronger it becomes.”
“The pubic arena is where ideas go to battle.”
“The true strength of a society lies in its ability to embrace diversity.”
“Those who worry about worldly affairs must be diligent and cautious.”
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below.”
“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not the battlefields of Vietnam.”
“You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.”
“It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.”
“It is no small matter to know whether we are going to live in a society in which personal rights, individual rights, take precedence over collective rights. It is no minor question of secondary importance to know whether we are going to live in a society in which all citizens are equal before the law and before the State itself. And it is no trivial matter to determine if there will be a spirit of brotherhood and of sharing in the society we are going to live in... When collective rights take precedence over individual freedoms.”
“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. There are shared values—openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice.”
“Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor' - infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”
“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía remembered that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
“A general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality. For this reason, postmodernism is highly skeptical of explanations which claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person. In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually. Postmodernism relies on concrete experience over abstract principles, knowing always that the outcome of one's own experience will necessarily be fallible and relative, rather than certain and universal.”
“A term tied very closely to postmodernism, deconstructionism is a challenge to the attempt to establish any ultimate or secure meaning in a text. It collapses all hierarchies preventing you from moving forward, there is no up, no down. It's a gradual move to postmodernism then eventually nihilism.”
“But in the context of a tv show, something will be kind of a non-show (think most things on adult swim). But here's the crux of the question. I've seen people post porn in regular discord channels and mostly memes in nsfw discord channels and there's a bit of a 'who's going to break first and be genuine in the use of the channel' kind of mood. And that aversion to candide expression is something that exists elsewhere, like political commentators are kind of looked down on for talking passionately about the issues they think are important, activists are very often trolled to hell, and it feels like even taking a position at all is kind of similarly laughed at and almost discouraged, as though you're kind of giving up your ability to take nothing seriously. Is this post-modernism? Or is there another term for this?”
“Everyone is a bit racist. Everything is about power. Everyone is selfish there are no unselfish act. Are all postmodernistic, because then so what? Get to work.”
“I have recently come to understand postmodernism in a literary context as ironic works of parody and satire among other things.”
“I think it's best explained through literature: previously, you may have a story that tied up nicely, and the ending made sense. But after World War II and into the Cold War, it didn't seem like things were making sense anymore.”
“Instead of power, what about competence, beauty, skill, talent? It's self-contradicting, because it gives you no direction for action. Questions everything. Reading literature through a postmodern lens, who is the group being represented. Takes the thing and strips all meaning from it. To destroy all system of beliefs. To even ask the question of what the meaning of life is postmodern - it's postmodern to think of the future. What is postmodernism? Borderlines nihilism. You can't be for or against anything. It exhausts all theories and values. Such that you have no ground to stand on. If you take deconstructionism to it's very end, it boils down to power, pitting the oppressor against the oppressed.”
“It destroys all values systems, because how can you privilege one thing above the other if there are an infinite number of interpretations?”
“It's between modernism and distopia.”
“It's not beyond modernism, it's after.”
“No truth, no meaning, no certainty. It moves the interpretation form author to the reader, anyone can have their own interpretation. It makes yourself god.”
“Postmodernism is a cultural artistic era, it's kind of a label to put on works like the renaissance or the medieval period, but much much more recent.”
“Postmodernism is when the real bleeds into the meta-real.”
“Some now say we are in the 'post-post-modern' period, but it's not like all of the artists/cultural contributors get into a room and decide what era the calendar page is on.”
“Specifically as it relates to comedy, postmodernism seems to be kind of non jokes, or just a subversion of meaning, so in the context of telling a joke the real joke is that it's an anti-joke.”
“The 'postmodern' era of literature is filled with unreliable narrators, fragmented stories, and a lot of irony. This is reflective of the larger cultural feelings of relativism.”
“You can use it to to end any conversation, it's an axiom stating that either party's argument is but another word, like deconstructionism.”
“"I can only do so much," versus, "I did the best that I could do," means the same thing.”
“Action speak louder than words, what you say has little to do with what you believe, but the chance of you acting it out is 100%.”
“Always remember a person’s name. A person’s name is to that person the sweetest and the most important sound in any language.”
“Every joke is a tiny revolution.”
“Following in the footsteps of Freud, where is ideas are so profound that it is now just part of common human knowledge.”
“Ideologies have the same answer to everything, they know who the enemies are and go for them. It shades into dogma.”
“If we want to understand why people turn to pain-killers, we have to understand why they're in pain.”
“If you help someone it's your victory because they didn't generate a solution and can't help themselves next time.”
“If you say you are happy it means you were at one point sad.”
“If you want to be liked by others, you must like them first.”
“If your constantly ruminating with what happened and what you should of done if you had another chance. You will miss your life, dont look back.”
“In every movie the girl always wants to marry the rich guy but ends up with a poor one with character.”
“Lie detectors don't work on people who really think they're innocent.”
“Look good because you want the world to look good.”
“Next argument, before you can make a point, regurgitate their point and they have to agree.”
“Pathology vs ordinary misery, Sigmund Freud was trying to figure the distance between these when he first came to America.”
“What could be more meaningful than helping an unhappy person realize he is not an unhappy person.”
“What is the meaning of life? Shut up and get to work, take care of your family.”
“When we talk about our dreams coming true, we're talking about our ambitions. Dreaming is ultimately about awakening. The unconscious, from which dreams bubble up, seems to contain an image of the way you're supposed to be.”
“Would you rather be ignored or hated? If you're hated at least you exist.”
“You were bullied when you were 13. Now you carry it through your posture, demeanor, outlook on humanity for the rest of your life.”
“Your greatest trauma is now the baseline for the rest of your life.”
“It is no use holding others responsible for your ruin and destruction. Because whatever happens to you is the result of something bad you have done someone, somewhere in the past.”
“Relationships are important because you may have a problem and the person your talking to took 40 years to solve that problem and they share it with you.”
“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.”
“When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we help them become what they can be.”
“A principle assumption held as fact on which decisions are based, while a doctrine is a fundamental belief how to act.”
“After escaping slavery in Egypt, the Jewish people wandered for 40 years in the desert on the way to the promised land.”
“All gurus are trying to one up each other, even if you say they're not, it's still saying they're better.”
“As cultures ammalgomate gods of differnt religions are fighting.”
“As we move toward machines, the ones that come after us, we shall call them gods.”
“Christianity provides rules and structure that all members play not just physical live fully you can enter the kingdom of heaven.”
“Free will only possible with something bigger than you.”
“Giving thanks, saying a prayer before a meal means being grateful.”
“Heaven and hell exists but it's here on earth.”
“How the splitting of the red sea could be true: we were in the stars that exploded, where an atom splits and becomes two.”
“I present to you truth and love: which is God closer to?”
“If it's universal then it's as close to sacred as possible.”
“If you know the program you can live outside of it (i.e. Muhammad, Buddha and Jesus).”
“If you remove religion will you arrive at a better place than we are now? I don't know, but one thing I do know is that we live in a pretty good place.”
“In heaven you don't need faith or hope or love.”
“Intellect associates with arrogance and pride. There is nothing outside of what you know. That's the summary of the devil in Paradise Lost.”
“Is God above humanity or humanity above God?”
“Jesus bared the suffering so that other people don't have to.”
“Jesus' resurrection must be true or everything falls apart.”
“Muslims practice Islam, Christians practice Christianity.”
“Show gratitude everyday because you can't feel grateful and depressed at the same time.”
“The devil wants us to think that we can live forever.”
“Values aren't created it's discovered because we're not gods we can't create our own values.”
“You can't say you believe, because you are not morally worthy.”
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.”
“We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.”
“It's hard to force someone to love you. And it's even harder to force yourself to stop loving someone.”
“Life consists of faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss.”
“The truth may be sad, but it is better than a lie.”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
“Johnny's life passed him by, like a warm summer day, If you listen to the wind, you can still hear him play.”
“It's true that I considered killing myself, but I thought as I was already standing over the water, that if I considered myself a strong man all along, then let me not be afraid of shame now.”
“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”
“For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
“By predicting the future you change it, that's Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.”
“If you put 23 people in a room, there's over 50% chance that at least two of them have the same birthday.”
“In space there is 1 hydrogen atom per square meter.”
“Intent vs actual = .33 correlation. Example, you want to buy a car next year? 33% chance.”
“Math and science is a way of knowing - an uncertainty reducer - it disregards reality in some ways, narrows and defines to the point where it's not useful for the everyday. It is the language you use when you can't explain things like a razer balancing on a bowling ball, but it doesn't exist in the real world.”
“Meaning of life and theory of everything is the same thing.”
“Ribosomes convert atoms into body parts.”
“What makes science truth superior is that it make all other truths logically consistent, but meaning is beyond logic like music, peotry and art.”
“Science at its highest level is ultimately the organization of, the systematic pursuit of, and the enjoyment of wonder, awe and mystery.”
“Man is that being who invented the gas chambers in Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer on his lips.”
“Don't mention age, name and numbers, it's mechanical and creepy. There's something creepy about looking into the past, because its what you use when you cant explain things, i.e. numbers, colors, shapes, sizes, names, categorize, group, sort, repeat and loop.”
“If the body is a computer then culture is the software and thoughts the data.”
“If Timmy plays for 20 hours a day on his computer as a unicorn flying through space, who's to say Timmy's not a unicorn?”
“In the hopes to write the fundamental rules to figure out our source code. What is this place? What is the source code to reality?”
“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed, it is completely honest.”
“Technology is the new religion.”
“Technology primary objective is to organize people and things.”
“Technology: video games, movies, music, podcasts and websites will all merge soon. Think corner of your space in the universe (IoT web server).”
“The machine is not bad, but it's not biological.”
“There's a war going on between biology and machine.”
“We now have the ability to destroy planets.”
“We will never reach AI because when we do we become it and it starts over. Just like what happened 2000 years ago, and 13B years ago. It will be the same significance.”
“We're moving towards a place where you can be whatever you want to be.”
“What about a video game that renders as you move? The simplest system is the best one always because it uses less energy.”
“How is it that we have so much information, but know so little?”
“Addictions are humans attempt to murder time so don't have to address mortality. Drugs are about the moment. To hell with the future. Mindless satisfaction drugs and alcohol make you not care or worry about consequences you lose time and don't think of the future. If you're an addict. You need to find something better than the drug, what's better?”
“By stating you're honest or good, you're stealing from the future.”
“Events happen, deeds are done. There is no individual doer thereof. Do what you think is right at the moment, and leave it at that.”
“If you experience it then you are certain about it. The future is uncertain. Information is future experience.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“The future is a mystery, the past is history, now is a gift, that's why it's called the present.”
“The future never comes. The past never happens until you remember it. There's only the now”
“The past is changed every time you think about it.”
“You can't predict the future, something always slips in take place.”
“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”
“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.”
“There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is; I've always been a fool.”
“It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
“We manage to never really connect with the present moment and find fulfillment there, because we are continually hoping to become happy in the future. And the future never arrives.”
“What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. Footsteps echo in the memory. Down the passage which we did not take. Towards the door we never opened. Into the rose-garden.”
“Paradox of existence: either it was always here or someone created it, both are equally scary. There can't be a third option because we not there to observe it.”
“The longer something has been around the more real it is.”
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
“There is no absolute up or down; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.”
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
“In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe. We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.”
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess new eyes; to behold the universe through the eyes of another—of a hundred others—to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
“There are only 3 things in the universe: the known-knowns, the known-unknowns, and the unknown-unknowns. What we know, what we don't know, and what we don't know we don't know.”
“Assertiveness ~ being assertive means being positive and confident. You are aware that you are a worthy person with your own special gifts. You think for yourself and express your own ideas. You know what you stand for and what you won’t stand for. You expect respect.”
“Caring ~ caring is giving love and attention to people and things that matter to you. When you care about people, you help them. You do a careful job, giving your very best effort. You treat people and things gently and respectfully. Caring makes the world a safer place.”
“Cleanliness ~ cleanliness means washing often, keeping your body clean, and wearing clean clothes. It is putting into your body and your mind only the things that keep you healthy. It is staying free from harmful drugs. It is cleaning up mistakes and making a fresh start.”
“Commitment ~ commitment is caring deeply about something or someone. It is deciding carefully what you want to do, then giving it 100%, holding nothing back. You give your all to a friendship, a task, or something you believe in. You finish what you start. You keep your promises.”
“Compassion ~ compassion is understanding and caring when someone is hurt or troubled, even if you don’t know them. It is wanting to help, even if all you can do is listen and say kind words. You forgive mistakes. You are a friend when someone needs a friend.”
“Confidence ~ confidence is having faith in someone. Selfconfidence is trusting that you have what it takes to handle whatever happens. You feel sure of yourself and enjoy trying new things, without letting doubts or fears hold you back. When you have confidence in others, you rely on them.”
“Consideration ~ consideration is being thoughtful of other people and their feelings. You consider how your actions affect them. You pay careful attention to what others like and don’t like, and do things that give them happiness.”
“Cooperation ~ cooperation is working together and sharing the load. When we cooperate, we join with others to do things that cannot be done alone. We are willing to follow the rules which keep everyone safe and happy. Together we can accomplish great things.”
“Courage ~ courage is bravery in the face of fear. You do the right thing even when it is hard or scary. When you are courageous, you don’t give up. You try new things. You admit mistakes. Courage is the strength in your heart.”
“Courtesy ~ courtesy is being polite and having good manners. When you speak and act courteously, you give others a feeling of being valued and respected. Greet people pleasantly. Bring courtesy home. Your family needs it most of all. Courtesy helps life to go smoothly.”
“Creativity ~ creativity is the power of imagination. It is discovering your own special talents. Dare to see things in new ways and find different ways to solve problems. With your creativity, you can bring something new into the world.”
“Detachment ~ detachment is experiencing your feelings without allowing your feelings to control you. Instead of just reacting, with detachment you are free to choose how you will act. You use thinking and feeling together, so you can make smart choices.”
“Determination ~ you focus your energy and efforts on a task and stick with it until it is finished. Determination is using your will power to do something when it isn't easy. You are determined to meet your goals even when it is hard or you are being tested. With determination we make our dreams come true.”
“Diligence ~ diligence is working hard and doing your absolute best. You take special care by doing things step by step. Diligence helps you to get things done with excellence and enthusiasm. Diligence leads to success.”
“Enthusiasm ~ enthusiasm is being cheerful, happy, and full of spirit. It is doing something wholeheartedly and eagerly. When you are enthusiastic, you have a positive attitude. Enthusiasm is being inspired.”
“Excellence ~ excellence is doing your best, giving careful attention to every task and every relationship. Excellence is effort guided by a noble purpose. It is a desire for perfection. The perfection of a seed comes in the fruit. When you practice excellence, you bring your gifts to fruition. Excellence is the key to success.”
“Flexibility ~ flexibility is being open to change. You consider others’ ideas and feelings and don’t insist on your own way. Flexibility gives you creative new ways to get things done. You get rid of bad habits and learn new ones. Flexibility helps you to keep changing for the better.”
“Forgiveness ~ being forgiving is giving someone another chance after they have done something wrong. Everyone makes mistakes. Instead of revenge, make amends. Forgive yourself too. Instead of feeling hopeless after a mistake, decide to act differently, and have faith that you can change.”
“Friendliness ~ friendliness is being a friend, through good times and bad. You take an interest in other people and make them feel welcome. You share your belongings, your time and yourself. Friendliness is the best cure for loneliness.”
“Generosity ~ generosity is giving and sharing. You share freely, not with the idea of receiving something in return. You find ways to give others happiness, and give just for the joy of giving. Generosity is one of the best ways to show love and friendship.”
“Gentleness ~ gentleness is moving wisely, touching softly, holding carefully, speaking quietly and thinking kindly. When you feel mad or hurt, use your self-control. Instead of harming someone, talk things out peacefully. You are making the world a safer, gentler place.”
“Helpfulness ~ helpfulness is being of service to others, doing thoughtful things that make a difference in their lives. Offer your help without waiting to be asked. Ask for help when you need it. When we help each other, we get more done. We make our lives easier.”
“Honesty ~ honesty is being truthful and sincere. It is important because it builds trust. When people are honest, they can be relied on not to lie, cheat or steal. Being honest means that you accept yourself as you are. When you are open and trustworthy, others can believe in you.”
“Honor ~ honor is living by the virtues, showing great respect for yourself, other people, and the rules you live by. When you are honorable, you keep your word. You do the right thing regardless of what others are doing. Honor is a path of integrity.”
“Humility ~ being humble is considering others as important as yourself. You are thoughtful of their needs and willing to be of service. You don’t expect others or yourself to be perfect. You learn from your mistakes. When you do great things, humility reminds you to be thankful instead of boastful.”
“Idealism ~ when you have ideals, you really care about what is right and meaningful in life. You follow your beliefs. You don’t just accept things the way they are. You make a difference. Idealists dare to have big dreams and then act as if they are possible.”
“Integrity ~ integrity is living by your highest values. It is being honest and sincere. Integrity helps you to listen to your conscience, to do the right thing, and to tell the truth. You act with integrity when your words and actions match. Integrity gives you self-respect and a peaceful heart.”
“Joyfulness ~ joyfulness is an inner sense of peace and happiness. You appreciate the gifts each day brings. Without joyfulness, when the fun stops, our happiness stops. Joy can carry us through the hard times even when we are feeling very sad. Joy gives us wings.”
“Justice ~ practicing justice is being fair. It is solving problems so everyone wins. You don’t prejudge. You see people as individuals. You don’t accept it when someone acts like a bully, cheats or lies. Being a champion for justice takes courage. Sometimes when you stand for justice, you stand alone.”
“Kindness ~ kindness is showing you care, doing some good to make life better for others. Be thoughtful about people’s needs. Show love and compassion to someone who is sad or needs your help. When you are tempted to be cruel, to criticize or tease, decide to be kind instead.”
“Love ~ love is a special feeling that fills your heart. You show love in a smile, a kind word, a thoughtful act or a hug. Love is treating people and things with care and kindness because they mean so much to you. Love is contagious. It keeps spreading.”
“Loyalty ~ loyalty is staying true to someone. It is standing up for something you believe in without wavering. It is being faithful to your family, country, school, friends or ideals, when the going gets tough as well as when things are good. With loyalty, you build relationships that last forever.”
“Moderation ~ moderation is creating a healthy balance in your life between work and play, rest and exercise. You don’t overdo or get swept away by the things you like. You use your selfdiscipline to take charge of your life and your time.”
“Modesty ~ modesty is having self-respect. When you value yourself with quiet pride, you accept praise with humility and gratitude. Modesty is being comfortable with yourself and setting healthy boundaries about your body and your privacy.”
“Orderliness ~ orderliness is being neat and living with a sense of harmony. You are organized, and you know where things are when you need them. Solve problems step by step instead of going in circles. Order around you creates order inside you. It gives you peace of mind.”
“Patience ~ patience is quiet hope and trust that things will turn out right. You wait without complaining. You are tolerant and accepting of difficulties and mistakes. You picture the end in the beginning and persevere to meet your goals. Patience is a commitment to the future.”
“Peacefulness ~ peacefulness is being calm inside. Take time for daily reflection and gratitude. Solve conflicts so everyone wins. Be a peacemaker. Peace is giving up the love of power for the power of love. Peace in the world begins with peace in your heart.”
“Perseverance ~ perseverance is being steadfast and persistent. You commit to your goals and overcome obstacles, no matter how long it takes. When you persevere, you don't give up...You keep going. Like a strong ship in a storm, you don't become battered or blown off course. You just ride the waves.”
“Purposefulness ~ being purposeful is having a clear focus. Begin with a vision for what you want to accomplish, and concentrate on your goals. Do one thing at a time, without scattering your energies. Some people let things happen. When you are purposeful, you make things happen.”
“Reliability ~ reliability means that others can depend on you. You keep your commitments and give your best to every job. You are responsible. You don’t forget, and you don’t need to be reminded. Other people can relax knowing things are in your reliable hands.”
“Respect ~ we show respect by speaking and acting with courtesy. We treat others with dignity and honor the rules of our family, school and nation. Respect yourself, and others will respect you.”
“Responsibility ~ being responsible means others can trust you to do things with excellence. You accept accountability for your actions. When you make a mistake, you offer amends instead of excuses. Responsibility is the ability to respond ably and to make smart choices.”
“Self-discipline ~ self-discipline means self-control. It is doing what you really want to do, rather than being tossed around by your feelings like a leaf in the wind. You act instead of react. You get things done in an orderly and efficient way. With selfdiscipline, you take charge of yourself.”
“Service ~ service is giving to others, making a difference in their lives. You consider their needs as important as your own. Be helpful without waiting to be asked. Do every job with excellence. When you act with a spirit of service, you can change the world.”
“Tact ~ tact is telling the truth kindly, considerate of how your words affect others’ feelings. Think before you speak, knowing what is better left unsaid. When you are tactful, others find it easier to hear what you have to say. Tact builds bridges.”
“Thankfulness ~ thankfulness is being grateful for what we have. It is an attitude of gratitude for learning, loving and being. Appreciate the little things that happen around you and within you every day. Think positively. Thankfulness brings contentment.”
“Tolerance ~ being tolerant is accepting differences. You don’t expect others to think, look, speak or act just like you. You are free of prejudice, knowing that all people have feelings, needs, hopes and dreams. Tolerance is also accepting things you wish were different with patience and flexibility.”
“Trust ~ trust is having faith in someone or something. It is a positive attitude about life. You are confident that the right thing will happen without trying to control it or make it happen. Even when difficult things happen, trust helps us to find the gift or lesson in it.”
“Trustworthiness ~ trustworthiness is being worthy of trust. People can count on you to do your best, to keep your word and to follow through on your commitments. You do what you say you will do. Trustworthiness is a key to success in anything you do.”
“Truthfulness ~ truthfulness is being honest in your words and actions. You don’t tell lies even to defend yourself. Don’t listen to gossip or prejudice. See the truth for yourself. Don’t try to be more than you are to impress others. Be yourself, your true self.”
“Understanding ~ understanding is using your mind to think clearly, paying careful attention to see the meaning of things. An understanding mind gives you insights and wonderful ideas. An understanding heart gives you empathy and compassion for others. Understanding is the power to think and learn and also to care.”
“Unity ~ unity helps us work and live together peacefully. We feel connected with each other and all living things. We value the specialness of each person as a gift, not as a reason to fight or be scared. With unity we accomplish more together than any of one of us could alone.”
World
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard.”
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching. Love like you'll never be hurt. Sing like there's nobody listening. And live like it's heaven on earth.”
“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”
“There are 3 types of leaders in this world: the leader that's loved; the leader that's hated; and the leader that people barely know he exists. When the work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
“Unlike the earth, the sea is not separated from the sky; it radiates under the sun and seems to die with it every evening. And when the sun has vanished, the sea keeps longing for it, keeps preserving a bit of its luminous reminiscence in the face of the uniformly somber earth.”
