"It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize."
W. H. Auden
"Tolerate the ... Process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve."
Joe David Bellamy
"There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you."
Neale Donald Walsch
"What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God."
Augustine of Hippo
"That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough."
Aryn Kyle
"It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct."
Jane Austen
Edmund Burke
"Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed."
Jodi Picoult
"I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity."
Dick Cavett
"Maybe they’re not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.And that better thing is us."
Scott Westerfeld
"It is never long before identity is reduced to loyalty."
Leon Wieseltier
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret."
Silas House
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device."
David Langford
"Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow."
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