Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.
Larry Niven born 1938
born 1938
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Dark-heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime— The image of eternity.
Lord Byron 1788 - 1824
1788 - 1824
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader.
Robert Frost 1874 - 1963
1874 - 1963
I think, therefore I am.
Renè Descartes 1596 - 1650
1596 - 1650
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx 1890 - 1977
1890 - 1977
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890
1853 - 1890
I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973
1881 - 1973
As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.
Bertrand Russell 1872- 1970
1872- 1970
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘‘Fit the Fifth’’ (radio program) (1978)
1952 - 2001
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘‘Fit the Fifth’’ (radio program) (1978)
An autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell (though I didn't use that figure), the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.
Mark Twain 1835 - 1910
1835 - 1910
We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost anything can become "human nature" if society defines it as such.
Robert Anton Wilson 1932 - 2007
1932 - 2007
The total depravity of inanimate things.
Gail Hamilton 1833 - 1896
1833 - 1896
This vast number of worlds, the enormous scale of the universe... has not been taken into account, even superficially, in virtually no religion, and especially in no Western religions.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
1934 - 1996
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realised who was telling me this.
Emo Phillips born 1956
born 1956
Somewhere I read that the greatness of America was the right to protest for rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968
1929 – 1968
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl 1916 - 1990
1916 - 1990
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
William E. Deming 1900 - 1993
1900 - 1993
The stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
J. K. Rowling born 1965
born 1965
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot 1888 - 1965
1888 - 1965
...reality is always plural and mutable.
1932 - 2007
Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
The diseases that we civilised people labour under most are melancholy and pessimism.
Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890
1853 - 1890
According to the Buddhist teachings, human beings have a distorted view of reality that leads them to suffer unnecessarily. We grasp at transitory pleasures. We brood about the past and worry about the future. We continually seek to prop up and defend an egoic self that doesn’t exist. This is stressful, and spiritual life is the process of gradually unravelling our confusion and bringing this stress to an end.
Sam Harris born 1967
Harris, S. (2014). Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. Bantam Press.
born 1967
Harris, S. (2014). Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. Bantam Press.
Quality is pride of workmanship.
William E. Deming 1900 - 1993
1900 - 1993
Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we control the population for the benefit of the environment.
David Attenborough born 1926
born 1926
Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
Stella Benson 1892 - 1933
1892 - 1933