“The point is, you see…that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might as well just give in and save your sanity for later.” -Douglas Adams
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” -Herm Albright
“I wouldn’t mind dying so much if it wasn’t that I would be dead at the end of it.” -Woody Allen
“The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.” -Philip W. Anderson
“Thou art but a little soul bearing about a corpse.” -Marcus Arelius
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle
“The worst men often give the best advice.” -Sir Francis Bacon
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” -(attributed to) Yogi Berra
“You are NOT thinking! You’re merely being rational!” -Niels Bohr, to Albert Einstein
“I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.” -Ashleigh Brilliant
“The face of ‘evil’ is always the face of total need.” -William S. Burroughs
“Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?” -Albert Camus
“Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac?” -George Carlin
“When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.” -Lord Chesterfield
“Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.” -F. Forrester Church
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.” -Georges Clemenceau
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” -Samuel Clemens
“I do feel… that I now have a better understanding of what the key problems are than I did ten years ago. At times I even persuade myself that I can glimpse some of the answers, but this is a common delusion experienced by anyone who dwells too long on a single problem.” -Francis Crick
“I have been loved, Edward told the stars.
So? said the stars.” -Kate DiCamillo
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” -Philip K. Dick
“David Hume, the greatest skeptic of them all, once remarked that after a gathering of skeptics met to proclaim the veracity of skepticism as a philosophy, all of the members of the gathering nonetheless left by the door rather than the window.” -Philip K. Dick
“Listen: if everyone must suffer, in order to buy eternal harmony with their suffering, pray tell me what have children got to do with it?” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You know what kind of man I think you are? You’re the kind of man who would stand there and smile at his torturers while they were tearing out his guts–if only he could find faith or a god.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.” -Fyodor Dostovesky
“We become what we think about all day long.” -Wayne Dyer
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” -Albert Einstein
“It is best, it seems to me, to separate one’s inner striving from one’s trade as far as possible. It is not good when one’s daily break is tied to God’s special blessing.” -Albert Einstein
“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” -Albert Einstein
“Obviously, the truth is what’s so. Not quite so obviously, its also ‘so what?’” -Est
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” -William Faulkner
“Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.” -Martin H. Fischer
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.” -Benjamin Franklin
“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you’re finished.” -Benjamin Franklin
“There’s the ventriloquist’s dummy, the chairman… and a wise old person, a mechanic, demons, a fool… the disunited states of myself… and the town meeting is always in session.” -Robert Fulghum
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” -Katharine Fullerton Gerould
“Darwin teaches us that species are only assemblies of genes, interacting at random with each other and the shifting environment. Species cannot control their fates. Species do not exist.” -John Gray
“I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.” -Matthew Henry
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.” -Bill Hicks
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” -Napoleon Hill
“The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.”
-William Dean Howells
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.” -Jerome K. Jerome
“Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake when you make it again.” -F. P. Jones
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” -Erica Jong
“No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.” -Terry Josephson
“The first casulty when war comes is truth.” -Hiram Johnson
“…depression has something to tell me; because often depression is an appropriate reaction; because I am terrified of changing the function of my brain in any way; because I believe that depression is ‘me,’ and that without it I would not be ‘me’; because I can’t imagine my life without the time off I get from periodic depression.” -Susanna Kaysen
“The debate was wearing me out. Once you’ve posed that question, it won’t go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won’t. -Susanna Kaysen
“The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of life, by which we see ourselves and others only imperfectly, and seldom.” -Susanna Kaysen
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -Sam Keen
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” -Alan Keightley
“Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.” -Garrison Keillor
“Know when to tune out; if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.” -Ann Landers
“Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.” -D. H. Lawrence
“People find life entirely too time-consuming.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” -Robert E. Lee
“Apollo, the God of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number — Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don’t look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar and have a beer with Dionysos every now and then.” -U.K. LeGuin
“There are no right answers to wrong questions.” -U.K. LeGuin
“To oppose something is to maintain it.” -U.K. LeGuin
“If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.” -U.K. LeGuin
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” -John Lennon
“When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -C.S. Lewis
“He who holds a hammer believes that everything is a nail.” -Abraham Maslow
“It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.” -W. Somerset Maugham
“Laugh at yourself before anyone else can.” -Elsa Maxwell
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.” -H.L. Mencken
“It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.” -William McFee
“We are never prepared for what we expect.” -James A. Michener
“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” -Mary Tyler Moore
“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.” -Howard Nemerov
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.” -Blaise Pascal
“No man becomes a hero by dying for his country; he becomes a hero by making some other poor bastard die for his.” -George S. Patton
“We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.” -Ian Percy
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.” -Alexander Pope
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem it was intended to solve.” -Karl Popper
“You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.” -Antonio Porchia
“We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.” -Antonio Porchia
“For as long as and insofar as it cannot be, it is almost always a reproach to everything that can.” -Antonio Porchia
“When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.” -Antonio Porchia
“I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.” -Antonio Porchia
“If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!” -Antonio Porchia
“I like boring, it lasts.” -Terry Pratchett
“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.” -Anthony Robbins
“If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?” -Bertrand Russell
“Consciousness is knowing what you thought last; free-will is not knowing what you’ll think next.” -Justin B. Rye
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” -Carl Sagan
“Whenever a woman says ‘We need to talk,’ it means she’s reached a decision and it’s already too late for you to talk back.” -Tim Sandlin
“Bravery isn’t what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.” -Tim Sandlin
“Movement eases turmoil.” -Tim Sandlin
“That life is worth living is the most essential of assumptions and, if not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.” -George Santayana
“Sanity is madness put to good uses.” -George Santayana
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.” -Carl Schurz
“Unhappy fellow, you are a slave to men, you are a slave to your business, you are a slave to life. For life, if courage to die be lacking, is slavery.” -Seneca
“Would you not think him an utter fool who wept because he was not alive a thousand years ago? And is he not just as much a fool who weeps because he will not be alive a thousand years from now? It is the same, you will not be, and you were not; neither of these times belongs to you.” -Seneca
“Therefore let us press on and persevere. There remains much more of the road than we have put behind us; but the greater part of progress is the desire to progress.” -Seneca
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” -George Bernard Shaw
“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.” -Susan Sontag
“No one wants advice – only corroboration.” -John Steinbeck
“My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.” -Tom Stoppard
“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.” -Lily Tomlin
“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want to do and then advise them to do it.” -Harry S. Truman
“Science says: ‘We must live,’ and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable. Wisdom says: ‘We must die,’ and seeks how to make us die well.” -Miguel de Unamuno
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” -Paul Valery
“Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.” -Pancho Villa’s last words
“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.” -Voltaire
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” -Voltaire
“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.” -Jane Wagner
“What is reality anyway! It’s nothing but a collective hunch.” -Jane Wagner
“Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t put his pants on.” -Arthur K. Watson
“At fourteen you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy.” -Jessamyn West
“The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.” -Oscar Wilde
“Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.” -Oscar Wilde
“There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, ‘Gradually and then suddenly.’ When someone asks how I lost my mind, that is all I can say too.“ -Elizabeth Wurtzel
“There’s probably some sort of law that states that a philosophical problem cannot be solved until the solution has practical ramifications.” -Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is [sic] handicapped.” -Tabla Rasa, ILP; quoting Desiderius Erasmus
“A person who can’t lead and won’t follow makes a dandy roadblock.” -Unknown
“There are three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth.” -Unknown
“History is written by those in power to justify the present. Memory is the same thing on a smaller scale.” -Unknown
“[Stephen Pinker] argues that political equality does not require sameness, but policies that treat people as individuals with rights; that moral progress doesn’t require the human mind to be naturally free of selfish motives, only that it have other motives to counteract them; that responsibility doesn’t require behavior to be uncaused, only that it respond to praise and blame; and that meaning in life doesn’t require that the process that shaped the brain must have a purpose, only that the brain itself must have purposes.” -Wikipedia
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” -Herm Albright
“I wouldn’t mind dying so much if it wasn’t that I would be dead at the end of it.” -Woody Allen
“The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.” -Philip W. Anderson
“Thou art but a little soul bearing about a corpse.” -Marcus Arelius
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle
“The worst men often give the best advice.” -Sir Francis Bacon
“If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” -(attributed to) Yogi Berra
“You are NOT thinking! You’re merely being rational!” -Niels Bohr, to Albert Einstein
“I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.” -Ashleigh Brilliant
“The face of ‘evil’ is always the face of total need.” -William S. Burroughs
“Should I kill myself or have a cup of coffee?” -Albert Camus
“Have you ever noticed that anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac?” -George Carlin
“When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise.” -Lord Chesterfield
“Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.” -F. Forrester Church
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.” -Georges Clemenceau
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” -Samuel Clemens
“I do feel… that I now have a better understanding of what the key problems are than I did ten years ago. At times I even persuade myself that I can glimpse some of the answers, but this is a common delusion experienced by anyone who dwells too long on a single problem.” -Francis Crick
“I have been loved, Edward told the stars.
So? said the stars.” -Kate DiCamillo
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” -Philip K. Dick
“David Hume, the greatest skeptic of them all, once remarked that after a gathering of skeptics met to proclaim the veracity of skepticism as a philosophy, all of the members of the gathering nonetheless left by the door rather than the window.” -Philip K. Dick
“Listen: if everyone must suffer, in order to buy eternal harmony with their suffering, pray tell me what have children got to do with it?” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“You know what kind of man I think you are? You’re the kind of man who would stand there and smile at his torturers while they were tearing out his guts–if only he could find faith or a god.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.” -Fyodor Dostovesky
“We become what we think about all day long.” -Wayne Dyer
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” -Albert Einstein
“It is best, it seems to me, to separate one’s inner striving from one’s trade as far as possible. It is not good when one’s daily break is tied to God’s special blessing.” -Albert Einstein
“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” -Albert Einstein
“Obviously, the truth is what’s so. Not quite so obviously, its also ‘so what?’” -Est
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” -William Faulkner
“Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself.” -Martin H. Fischer
“Originality is the art of concealing your sources.” -Benjamin Franklin
“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you’re finished.” -Benjamin Franklin
“There’s the ventriloquist’s dummy, the chairman… and a wise old person, a mechanic, demons, a fool… the disunited states of myself… and the town meeting is always in session.” -Robert Fulghum
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” -Katharine Fullerton Gerould
“Darwin teaches us that species are only assemblies of genes, interacting at random with each other and the shifting environment. Species cannot control their fates. Species do not exist.” -John Gray
“I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.” -Matthew Henry
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.” -Bill Hicks
“The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” -Napoleon Hill
“The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.”
-William Dean Howells
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.” -Jerome K. Jerome
“Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake when you make it again.” -F. P. Jones
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” -Erica Jong
“No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.” -Terry Josephson
“The first casulty when war comes is truth.” -Hiram Johnson
“…depression has something to tell me; because often depression is an appropriate reaction; because I am terrified of changing the function of my brain in any way; because I believe that depression is ‘me,’ and that without it I would not be ‘me’; because I can’t imagine my life without the time off I get from periodic depression.” -Susanna Kaysen
“The debate was wearing me out. Once you’ve posed that question, it won’t go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won’t. -Susanna Kaysen
“The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of life, by which we see ourselves and others only imperfectly, and seldom.” -Susanna Kaysen
“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” -Sam Keen
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” -Alan Keightley
“Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.” -Garrison Keillor
“Know when to tune out; if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.” -Ann Landers
“Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.” -D. H. Lawrence
“People find life entirely too time-consuming.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” -Robert E. Lee
“Apollo, the God of light, of reason, of proportion, harmony, number — Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don’t look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar and have a beer with Dionysos every now and then.” -U.K. LeGuin
“There are no right answers to wrong questions.” -U.K. LeGuin
“To oppose something is to maintain it.” -U.K. LeGuin
“If you see a whole thing – it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives… But up close a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.” -U.K. LeGuin
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” -John Lennon
“When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” -C.S. Lewis
“He who holds a hammer believes that everything is a nail.” -Abraham Maslow
“It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.” -W. Somerset Maugham
“Laugh at yourself before anyone else can.” -Elsa Maxwell
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.” -H.L. Mencken
“It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.” -William McFee
“We are never prepared for what we expect.” -James A. Michener
“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.” -Mary Tyler Moore
“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.” -Howard Nemerov
“We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.” -Blaise Pascal
“No man becomes a hero by dying for his country; he becomes a hero by making some other poor bastard die for his.” -George S. Patton
“We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.” -Ian Percy
“You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.” -Alexander Pope
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem it was intended to solve.” -Karl Popper
“You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.” -Antonio Porchia
“We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.” -Antonio Porchia
“For as long as and insofar as it cannot be, it is almost always a reproach to everything that can.” -Antonio Porchia
“When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.” -Antonio Porchia
“I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.” -Antonio Porchia
“If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!” -Antonio Porchia
“I like boring, it lasts.” -Terry Pratchett
“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.” -Anthony Robbins
“If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?” -Bertrand Russell
“Consciousness is knowing what you thought last; free-will is not knowing what you’ll think next.” -Justin B. Rye
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” -Carl Sagan
“Whenever a woman says ‘We need to talk,’ it means she’s reached a decision and it’s already too late for you to talk back.” -Tim Sandlin
“Bravery isn’t what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.” -Tim Sandlin
“Movement eases turmoil.” -Tim Sandlin
“That life is worth living is the most essential of assumptions and, if not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.” -George Santayana
“Sanity is madness put to good uses.” -George Santayana
“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.” -Carl Schurz
“Unhappy fellow, you are a slave to men, you are a slave to your business, you are a slave to life. For life, if courage to die be lacking, is slavery.” -Seneca
“Would you not think him an utter fool who wept because he was not alive a thousand years ago? And is he not just as much a fool who weeps because he will not be alive a thousand years from now? It is the same, you will not be, and you were not; neither of these times belongs to you.” -Seneca
“Therefore let us press on and persevere. There remains much more of the road than we have put behind us; but the greater part of progress is the desire to progress.” -Seneca
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” -George Bernard Shaw
“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.” -Susan Sontag
“No one wants advice – only corroboration.” -John Steinbeck
“My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.” -Tom Stoppard
“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.” -Lily Tomlin
“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want to do and then advise them to do it.” -Harry S. Truman
“Science says: ‘We must live,’ and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable. Wisdom says: ‘We must die,’ and seeks how to make us die well.” -Miguel de Unamuno
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” -Paul Valery
“Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.” -Pancho Villa’s last words
“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.” -Voltaire
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” -Voltaire
“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.” -Jane Wagner
“What is reality anyway! It’s nothing but a collective hunch.” -Jane Wagner
“Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t put his pants on.” -Arthur K. Watson
“At fourteen you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy.” -Jessamyn West
“The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.” -Oscar Wilde
“Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.” -Oscar Wilde
“There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, ‘Gradually and then suddenly.’ When someone asks how I lost my mind, that is all I can say too.“ -Elizabeth Wurtzel
“There’s probably some sort of law that states that a philosophical problem cannot be solved until the solution has practical ramifications.” -Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is [sic] handicapped.” -Tabla Rasa, ILP; quoting Desiderius Erasmus
“A person who can’t lead and won’t follow makes a dandy roadblock.” -Unknown
“There are three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth.” -Unknown
“History is written by those in power to justify the present. Memory is the same thing on a smaller scale.” -Unknown
“[Stephen Pinker] argues that political equality does not require sameness, but policies that treat people as individuals with rights; that moral progress doesn’t require the human mind to be naturally free of selfish motives, only that it have other motives to counteract them; that responsibility doesn’t require behavior to be uncaused, only that it respond to praise and blame; and that meaning in life doesn’t require that the process that shaped the brain must have a purpose, only that the brain itself must have purposes.” -Wikipedia
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