Quotes
The capacity to say things that summarize dozens of years of deep thinking fascinates me. To say so much with so little, that is a skill I can deeply appreciate.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
Aldous Huxley
And so tell me -- what bad is there that one cannot teach a nation? Or people? Or all humanity?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
And on the whole, do you know, I have become convinced that there is no punishment that comes to us in this life on earth which is undeserved. Superficially it can have nothing to do with what we are guilty of in actual fact, but if you go over your life with a fine-tooth comb and ponder it deeply, you will always be able to hunt down that transgression of yours for which you have now received this blow
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either-but right through every human heart and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A stone is not a human being, and even stones get crushed.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The job of art is to chase ugliness away
Bono
That which you most wish to find is found where you least wish to look.
Carl Gustav Jung
The prudent man avoids the danger lurking in these depths, but he also throws away the good which a bold but imprudent venture might bring.
Carl Gustav Jung
Fist comes food, then comes right from wrong.
Charles C. Mann
There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain‚ Or so says the legend.
Colleen McCullough
It was what it was: history, movement, attempts to contain misery, which sometimes brought new misery, because the dream and the shadow are close friends.
David Van Reybrouck
It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping
Proof means nothing to faith. Thomas did not believe in God because he saw Jezus, but because he wanted to believe.
Fyodor Dostojevski
Hmmm.... yes, all is in a man’s hand and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom.
Fyodor Dostojevski
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
Fyodor Dostojevski
My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.
Fyodor Dostojevski
The world is a museum of passion projects.
Patrick Collison
Every rule was once a creative act, breaking other rules.
Jordan B. Peterson
The answer to the problem of humanity is the integrity of the individual.
Jordan B. Peterson
For each person is in truth an unfathomable enigma.
Jordan B. Peterson
It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.
Jordan B. Peterson
The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown, the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous to deal with them is risky yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.
Joseph Campbell
Now is the shortest moment of our life. It's gone In an instant, the longest moments of our life are our memories and our imaginations.
Kanye West
Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
Matthew 8:20
And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord wasnot in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
Kings 19:11-13
On the frontier, man must often chart his course by stars he has never seen. Rarely does one recognize or discover a complex problem, formulate it, and lay out a procedure that will solve it - all in one great flash of insight.
M. Mitchell Walldrop
Creativity is a function of freedom.
M. Mitchell Walldrop
Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.
Nassim Taleb
If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.
Nassim Taleb
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
Not even the will of the state behind you will hide your incompetence.
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Creativity, or the extent to which one can separate itself from the group.
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Two radical statements on both sides of a spectrum, do not level out to become a nuanced statement.
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Everyone I listen to for 2 hours makes more sense than everyone I listen to for 10 minutes.
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The political slogan of the antichrist is peace and safety.
Peter Thiel
In each generation, roughly a few hundred people made all the difference
Ray Dalio
The universe is only as large as our perception of it.
Rick Rubin
We are the unreliable narrators of our own experience.
Rick Rubin
It's not unusual for science to catch up to art, eventually. Nor is it unusual for art to catch up to the spiritual.
Rick Rubin
Listening is suspending disbelief.
Rick Rubin
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
Milton Friedman used to argue that there is no such thing as a free lunch, but at some level this had to be false. The universe exists, who had to pay for it?
Tyler Cowen
In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.
Viktor E. Frankl
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
Viktor E. Frankl
But it is not for me to pass judgement on those prisoners who put their own people above everyone else. Who can throw a stone at a man who favours his friends under circumstances when, sooner or later, it is a question of life or death? No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Viktor E. Frankl
The world produces waves. Surf or drown, you decide.
Virgil Abloh
You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Warren Buffet
In his presence the word “mastery” comes to mind. To me a master is anyone who can be themselves in any situation. Renias lives this definition. He has achieved one of the hardest things to achieve in our time: a freedom from judgment about how and who he should be.
Boyd Varty
I don’t know where we are going but I know exactly how to get there
Boyd Varty
On a path of a thousand dreams we are looking for reality.
Yuval Noah Harari
Is een boom verdrietig om het verliezen van bladeren?
Sticks
Some people vibrate closer to God.
Javier Milei
People make their mistakes as they stumble uphill.
Jordan B. Peterson
Als iedereen aan zichzelf denkt, dan wordt er tenminste aan iedereen gedacht.
Nederlandse leuze
On and on,
In and in
The green mountains.
Santoka Taneda
Last night’s loneliness…
I’ll plow the field,
Again
Santoka Taneda
After all
Every last one of us
Spring snow
Santoka Taneda
You say I am a riddle - it may be
for all of us are riddles unexplained.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Only madness drove us to celebrate your 24th birthday.
The cake was as big as the man that wouldn’t come.
Nobody ate it.
Like a gift to silence.
Column McCann
And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before God, but God was not in the wind.
After the wind there was an earthquake, but God was not in the earthquake.
After the earthquake there was a fire, but God was not in the fire.
And after the fire came a still, small voice.
1. Kings 19