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Quotes
I used to love buying books of quotes when my parents took us to the bookstore. It just seemed like a good value since so much information was in a quote compilation. I previously noted some quotes on my website in various posts, but I'm going to start putting them here.
23/05/23 - I'm gonna start placing these in order of value to me instead of chronologically.
23/08/22 - Leaving them in reverse chronological order because I can see what I added last
"The tragedy of life is that it gives us wisdom only when it has stolen youth. Health lies in action, and so it graces youth. To be busy is the secret of grace, and half the secret of content. Let us ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them. In Utopia, said Thoreau, each would build his own home; and then Suos would come back to the heart of man, as it comes to the bird when it builds its nest." - Fallen Leaves - Will Durant
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." – Ralph Waldo Emerson from The Conduct of Life (1860)
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." - Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden
"The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living" Albert Einstein
"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both." - L.P. Jacks
"Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are." - Ortega y Gasset
"The nicest thing about anything is not knowing what it is." - George Carlin
"If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise." - William Blake
"I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong." - Salman Rushdie
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." - Ram Dass
"Once there are clearly intelligent machines,” he said, “they won’t be interested in stealing our toys or dominating us, any more than they would be interested in dominating chimpanzees or taking nuts away from squirrels." - Edward Fredkin
"The more opinions you have, the less you see" - Wim Wenders
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
"You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later." - Mitch Hedberg
"The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed." - Terence McKenna
"The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously." - Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time" - Steven Wright
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be" - Douglas Adams
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom, which emerges when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis and freedom looks down into its own possibility, laying hold of finiteness to support itself." - Søren Kierkegaard
"Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective" - Carl Sagan - Dragons of Eden
"Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. Aside from painting and gardening, I am good for nothing." - Claude Monet