Words & Letters
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”― Lucius Annaeus Seneca Welcome to the end of the beginning. Or is it the beginning of the end. I have no idea. It’s been a long hectic year and we’ve still got some hurdles to clear before we’re done. Take a look at these links. Hopefully […]
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.” – Richard Feynman
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat.
‘I don’t much care where -‘ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat.
‘- so long as I get SOMEWHERE,’ Alice added as an explanation.
‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” ― Hermann Hesse, Demian
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”―Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous
“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.” ― Voltaire
“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.” ― Trevor Noah, ‘Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood’
“The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed–would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper–the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.” – George Orwell, 1984
“If you want to look good in front of thousands then you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.” ― Damian Lillard