“It wasn’t we who invented war,’ the group commander said. ‘It was war which created us. From the loins of man’s furious ineradicable greed sprang the captains and the colonels to his necessity. We are his responsibility; he shall not shirk it.”
― William Faulkner, A Fable
“You don’t look like a monster.”
“I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
"Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think." - Thomas Edison
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
@edgarblythe,
Quote:“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
Yea. Look at all them wars that were stupid and self-defeating.
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka
“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
“The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association), for instance, has a long list of corporate sponsors including General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars, PepsiCo, and SoyJoy—and its “official partners” include Hershey’s, the Coca-Cola Company, and the National Dairy Council.15”
― Denise Minger, Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
― Ezra Pound
“Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert
“The first words that are read by seekers of enlightenment in the secret, gong-banging, yeti-haunted valleys near the hub of the world, are when they look into The Life of Wen the Eternally Surprised.
The first question they ask is: 'Why was he eternally surprised?'
And they are told: 'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'
The first words read by the young Lu-Tze when he sought perplexity in the dark, teeming, rain-soaked city of Ankh-Morpork were: 'Rooms For Rent, Very Reasonable.' And he was glad of it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
― H.L. Mencken
“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. ”
― John Lennon
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
[shrug]
“That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.”
― Noam Chomsky
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka
@edgarblythe,
That quote reminds me of this one for some reason:
"I am a poor lost woof from the kennel of fate looking for a dog to belong to."
Saul Bellow
