Wisdom

...We took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.

Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.

Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.

Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the ‘Knowledge’ [of the Soul, one’s True Self] is to be enjoyed.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.

We have become a shroud of delusion over reality. It is 'time' to accept that time is a created thing, it is not ticking... It is just a legal and economic system under which we are treated as property. Stop the glorification of busy...Stop feeding yourself with your own ashes.

A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

The monkeys, she explained, were considered reincarnated politicians, which made Rue laugh and the stick entirely understandable.

The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.