"The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional."
Chuck Klosterman
"The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy."
Anonymous
"...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."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who might know a great deal more than she chose to reveal."
Agatha Christie
"If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations."
Elon Musk
"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."
François Lelord
"Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans' floors?'...'No.'Well, if you can't answer those simple scientific queries, then what makes you think that mankind is smart enough to discover vampirekind's existence?"
Heather Brewer
"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
C.S. Lewis
"Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation."
Charles F. Glassman
"Sweet are the uses of adversity."
William Shakespeare
"If the heights of our joy are measured by the depths of our gratitude, and gratitude is but a way of seeing, a spiritual perspective of smallness might offer a vital way of seeing especially conducive to gratitude."
Ann Voskamp
"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There was something in the way he posed a question and followed it up with a generous pause, I think, that drew me out. I had never noticed all the pauses that were missing from most people's conversations."
Suzanne Rindell
"Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen."
E. Lockhart
"Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera."
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