Quotes
Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
It’s more fun to be competent
— DHH
It’s more fun when you freak out.
— Dominique Miller
That’s the Native way of teaching. We have this, traditional pedagogy of, “just get out there and learn, fucker.”
— Spirit, Reservation Dogs
Rats racing to populate an island don’t leave a little aside as a preserve where the few rats who live there can live happy lives producing artwork. Cancer cells don’t agree to leave the lungs alone because they realize it’s important for the body to get oxygen. Competition and optimization are blind idiotic processes and they fully intend to deny us even one lousy galaxy.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house I would like to see you living In better conditions
— Hafez
The devil always shits on the biggest pile.
— German Proverb
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
— Edward P. Tryon
Make your work look like it happened all by itself.
— Alan Watts
We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because to us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself
— Nietzsche
I Am an Old Man and Have Known a Great Many Troubles, But Most of Them Never Happened
— Commonly attributed to Mark Twain but could have been someone else.
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
— William Shakespear, Hamlet
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
— Winston Churchill
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation. Which is why it is essential that we not respond impulsively to impressions; take a moment before reacting, and you will find it easier to maintain control.
— Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness