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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 18b11e1 | Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations. | nihilism | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| 1926844 | The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop. | Philip Roth | ||
| bc93fc3 | This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. | labyrinth predestination question | Neal Stephenson | |
| ef065db | The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard's unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 6a07bc0 | Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise. | Neal Stephenson | ||
| 2c7df27 | Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us. | social socially-inept | Neal Stephenson | |
| 2d530e2 | The challenge is to write about real things magically. | Raymond Chandler | ||
| d977f82 | The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail. | existence existentialism maturity selling-out youth | Paul Murray | |
| c8921d4 | One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of science in particular and rational thought in general, Dawkins and I are ignoring the very widespread claim by believers in God that their faith is quite beyond reason, not a matter to which such mundane methods of testing applies. It is not just unsy.. | religion science | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| c09427f | Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. None can survive for a moment on a correct metaphysics.... Existence exists, and only existence exists. Existence is a primary: it is uncreated, indestructible, eternal. So if you are to postulate something beyond existence--some supernatural realm--you must do it by openly denying reason, dispensing with definitions, proofs, arguments, and say.. | reality | Leonard Peikoff | |
| 2429d5a | She thinks how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures and movements, in breathing. Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. | Michael Cunningham | ||
| e3b2b4e | Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie. | Ted Dekker | ||
| dec5284 | And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it? | Ted Dekker | ||
| 13dceb6 | Light came into the darkness, but the darkness didn't understand it," Susan said. "Look to the light. Only the light can save you from yourself." | Ted Dekker | ||
| 2bb41ee | I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas. | Ted Dekker | ||
| fa35048 | She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. | writing writing-advice | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| e635e94 | It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies. | truth | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| 5c0e1e7 | leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 8ab9939 | Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 24efaa5 | It doesn't matter what you do, only how well you do it. | Dan Millman | ||
| 525adf0 | There is considerable hypocrisy in conventionalism. Any thinking person is aware of this paradox; but in dealing with conventional people it is advantageous to treat them as though they were not hypocrites. It isn't a question of faithfulness to your own concepts; it is a matter of compromise so that you can remain an individual without the constant threat of conventional pressures. | Truman Capote | ||
| fa3d69b | How I hate everything! | Edith Wharton | ||
| 5bf4845 | I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary. | love | Edith Wharton | |
| dc689e5 | And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs. | Douglas Adams | ||
| 200a853 | The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that. | improbable | Douglas Adams | |
| 3db8240 | I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams." -- | Douglas Adams | ||
| 65dd9b4 | He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house." | hitchhiker in-love silly | Douglas Adams | |
| 5d7e56b | Janx Spirit : Janx Spirit is a rather potent alcoholic beverage, and is used heavily in drinking games that are played in the hyperspace ports that serve the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta. The game is not unlike the Earth game called Indian Wrestling, and is played like this: Two contestants sit at either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them. Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit --.. | h2g2 hitchhiker-s-guide | Douglas Adams | |
| d6d0536 | His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particul.. | lord-of-the-rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 1d51fc7 | Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times. | galadriel the-grey-havens | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 0c1c142 | But her beauty was more than their beauty, and her sorrow deeper than their sorrows; and she knelt before Mandos and sang to him. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 6bb568f | I would venture to say that approaching the Christian Story from this direction, it has long been my feeling (a joyous feeling) that God redeemed the corrupt makingcreatures, men, in a way fitting to this aspect, as to others, of their strange nature. The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels--peculiarly artistic, beautiful, and moving: 'mythical.. | inspiration joy mythology on-fairy-stories | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 3ff3c48 | Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo o.. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| b5b9357 | He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait. | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| 5265d48 | I feel like spring after winter, and sun on the leaves; and like trumpets and harps and all the songs I have ever heard! | samwise-gamgee | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 67c2be0 | Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo | frodo middle-earth | J. R. R. Tolkien | |
| 5dcf2a1 | We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful. | law mandos tyranny | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| 7185ea8 | T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. | maritime ocean sea time | Herman Melville | |
| 4d583a9 | Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth. | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 6d01ce3 | sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 8373052 | Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom! | Bryce Courtenay | ||
| 3671e39 | I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. | David McCullough | ||
| baf8cd9 | But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! | Herman Melville | ||
| 42e6e2c | Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and th.. | Herman Melville |