Words & Letters
“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
“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.” ― Philip K. Dick
“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
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” ― Socrates
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”―Arthur C. Clarke
“If you want to look good in front of thousands then you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.” ― Damian Lillard
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” ― W.E.B. DuBois
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ― James Baldwin
“If you have to point at an enemy, our greatest enemy is apathy. We’d be able to achieve fantastic results if we were not trapped by the idea that nothing can be changed.” — Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot