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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 079ac24 | But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 34492c1 | These young people amaze me; drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If you ask them what they did yesterday, they don't get flustered; they tell you all about it in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd start stammering. It's true that for a long time now nobody has bothered how I spend my time. When you live alone, you even forget what it is to tell a story : plausibility disappears at the same time as friends. | existentialism solitude | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| c584476 | Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. I leaned back and closed my eyes. But the images, forewarned, immediately leaped up and filled my closed eyes with existences: existence is a fullness which man can never abandon. Strange | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 315794c | Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ? | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 1ea4613 | Freedom is what we do with what is done to us | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| d9ec681 | When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid. | freedom french-literature jean-paul-sartre philosophy the-age-of-reason the-roads-to-freedom | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| bebca12 | I get up. I move through this pale light; I see it change beneath my hands and on the sleeves of my coat: I cannot describe how much it disgusts me. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 4845a62 | The distance between the being and the conscience is the nothing | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 81365fa | This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| 3ffc2d3 | Freedom, for him, lay at the heart of all human experience, and this set humans apart from all other kinds of object. Other things merely sit in place, waiting to be pushed or pulled around. Even non-human animals mostly follow the instincts and behaviours that characterise their species, Sartre believed. But as a human being, I have no predefined nature at all. I create that nature through what I choose to do. Of course I may be influenced.. | Sarah Bakewell | ||
| 06f5504 | What a torment it is not to be rich! It gets one into such abject situations. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| d42cb39 | solo el perro o el caballo podrian emitir un juicio de conjunto sobre el hombre y declarar que el hombre es asombroso, lo que ellos no se preocupan de hacer, por lo menos que yo sepa. Pero no se puede admitir que un hombre pueda formular un juicio sobre el hombre. | humanismo humor | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| f10b5bb | THE HOLE The hole is something which longs to be filled. The small child is drawn as if by magic to holes. He can not restrain himself from putting in his finger or his whole arm. He makes a symbolic sacrifice of his body to cause the void to disappear and a plenitude of being to exist. The fundamental tendency of human beings to stop up holes persists throughout life, symbolically and in reality. And only from this standpoint can we unders.. | Jean-Paul Sartre | ||
| fd44bd4 | I think I want to kiss you again, | Julia Golding | ||
| ffacbe9 | A moment later, Jackie lifts himself into a canter. It is analyzable - I have seen the picture of how he steps so far under with his supporting hind leg that he is placing it right beneath where I am sitting; his leg and body become a U-shaped spring that lifts me forward - but it is not describable. It is neither floating nor springing. It is power without labor, thrust without force, the very opposite of any sort of aggression, the partic.. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 8bcfce6 | Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don't know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges. | Jane Smiley | ||
| 92e4b31 | What have we here--jinn or human? | Frank Herbert | ||
| 513525d | I never could bring myself to trust a traitor," the Baron said. "Not even a traitor I created." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 90ae6ed | Are you a believer or just playing safe? | Frank Herbert | ||
| 863e204 | You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6307d73 | Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on festering thoughts--voices gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 95c804d | Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures? | finance financial-mishap government ignorance investing | Frank Herbert | |
| d7d1dc7 | Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such i.. | freedom ideology liberty mythology post-apocalyptic power religion science-fiction social-science theology tyranny | Frank Herbert | |
| 47d20bc | My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 968931f | Duncan spoke quietly: 'Lucilla, if you touch me again without my permission, I will to kill you. I will try so hard that you very likely will have to kill me. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5d2dc90 | A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday lift - a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet coloured by the knowledge that life would not change for them. | Frank Herbert | ||
| e9f807a | The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change. | Frank Herbert | ||
| c1e658a | His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 21de5e9 | What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself? | Frank Herbert | ||
| a75945a | Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties...and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 96ce53d | Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento as maquinas, na esperanca de que isso os libertasse. Mas so permitiu que outros homens com maquinas os escravizassem | Frank Herbert | ||
| 25df495 | The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement--the real limit of organized society. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6ed5358 | His plan has good points and bad points...as any plan would at this stage. A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept. | Frank Herbert | ||
| cd6c445 | He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. | humility openness self-confidence | Frank Herbert | |
| 48c5d77 | He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 078433b | The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 897af91 | You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 999ea08 | This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs and crimson shadows, laments and rivers of martyrs - what had it come to at last? When the waves receded, the shores of Time would spread out there clean, empty, shining with infinite grains of memory and little else. | time | Frank Herbert | |
| 165448c | the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience. | Frank Herbert | ||
| e0fc8e4 | The universe is full of doors. | opportunity | Frank Herbert | |
| 45834ec | There are many kinds of ignorance, Streggi. The basest is to follow your own desires without examining them. Sometimes, we do it unconsciously. Hone your sensitivity. Be aware of what you do unconsciously. Always ask: 'When I did that, what was I trying to gain? | Frank Herbert | ||
| fa300ce | Now, motivational patterns are going to be similar among all espionage agents. That is to say: there will be certain types of motivation that are similar despite differing schools or opposed aims. You will study first how to separate this element for your analysis--in the beginning, through interrogation patterns that betray the inner orientation of the interrogators; secondly, by close observation of language-thought orientation of those u.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8e0d67f | Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning? | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6a92eac | We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. | trust truth | Frank Herbert |