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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living and doesn’t teach them how to live.
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the creative bug is just a wee voice telling you, “I’d like my crayons back, please.”
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Of all weapons, Love is the most deadly and devastating and few there be who thrust their fate in its hands.
What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
They must find it difficult… Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see farther than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
My goal as a writer is for the player to want to see the cutscenes. Earn your audience. Forcing people to sit through your glorified fanfic is the gaming equivalent of date rape.
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Being hung over is like winning the lottery, except they pay you in regret!
Comic: http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001055.html
The monk did not questions…or reason…or argue. He would either bend his will - and surrender that which he had promised to protect - or he would sacrifice the only life he had ever known. It struck his heart with a sureness…a fierceness of clarity. He had given his word… And his word was his bond.
Broken Saints
There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
Poem: The Divine Comedy
It is funny how people will talk of the sky falling. It really can’t fall, but at one point, people thought it could. The truth is the sky just is, and what matters is what lies under it.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Poem: Little Gidding
Tell my tale to those who ask. Tell it truely; the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest… is silence…
TV: Beast Wars
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
Every desire for good and happiness is for each person a very great and insidious Love. (…) Love is the desire to possess what is good for ever.
I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.
The poor, the illiterate, the ignorant, the afflicted; Let these be your God.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!
Comic: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=955
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Those who believe in the power of broad patterns and rules, rather than the authority of individuals or institutions, are not intimidated by the boundaries and hierarchies of knowledge.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
…But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget… I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another’s vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore
There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore
Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. As it is, the act of purchasing them is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their content.
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there’s no discernable difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?
Book: “Watchmen” by Alan Moore
What seems to us serious, significant, very important, will one day be forgotten or will seem unimportant. And it’s curious that we can’t possibly tell what exactly will be considered great and important, and what will seem petty and ridiculous.
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Who said that every wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it,
And look what it’s done so far.
What’s so amazing that keeps us stargazing
And what do we think we might see?
When wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it,
And look what it’s done so far.
What’s so amazing that keeps us stargazing
And what do we think we might see?
Song: Kenny Ascher and Paul Williams - The Rainbow Connection
No matter what side of the argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.
The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5’7”, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
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