Life Quotes

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anythin...

David Foster Wallace

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Daniel C. Dennett

Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

Arthur C. Clarke

May, and after a rainy spring We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons.

Life

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is ...

Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

David Foster Wallace

Whether we accept it or not, this will likely be the century that determines what the optimal human population is for our planet. It will come about in one of two ways: Either we decide to manage our own numbers, to avoid a collision of every line on...

Alan Weisman

To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That's power.

Sister Souljah

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Michel de Montaigne

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Bill Watterson

Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.

Benjamin DeHaven

Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.

Dorothy Koomson

Vendetta is the word, except it isn't strong enough.

Sister Souljah

Die Gesamtheit dieser Produktionsverhältnisse bildet die ökonomische Struktur der Gesellschaft, die reale Basis, worauf sich ein juristischer und politischer Überbau erhebt und welcher bestimmte gesellschaftliche Bewußtseinsformen entsprechen. Di...

Karl Marx

Without hesitation but with a sense of entitlement, he lifted my hand to his lips. He was gentlemen-like in every way... I don’t know why I wondered if it was an act or for real.

Life

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

Michel de Montaigne

The interdependent couple is the new setting and their knowledge of Self is an ancient treasure."-Serena Jade

Serena Jade

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

Michel de Montaigne

We were the church. As the New Testament instructed. When it was time for Sunday morning meeting, we convened in private homes. To raise a structure and call it a church was the worldly way. A church made of hands was soon cluttered with altars and c...

Michael Perry

How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

Michel de Montaigne

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Michel de Montaigne