“You don’t need to make a judgment. I know that doesn’t sound like liberation, because we live and work in an opinion-based economy. But it is. Not having an opinion means not having an obligation. And not being obligated is one of the sweetest of life’s riches.”
– Paul Ford
“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”
― Edward St. Aubyn
“Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci
“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
– Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
“Pessimism is the prison you put yourself in, hope is the means of escape”
– Tony Benn
“To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.”
– Schopenhauer
“Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.”
– Ambrose Bierce
“Your car is German. Your vodka is Russian. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your tea is Tamil. Your shirt is Indian. Your oil is Saudi Arabian. Your electronics are Chinese. Your numbers Arabic, your letters Latin. And you complain that your neighbor is an immigrant? Pull yourself together.”
– Unknown
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
– Socrates
“Controversy is the junk food of ideas.”
– Paul Graham
“I can show you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do for yourself.”
– Matisyahu
“The words here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.”
– Saint Augustine
“See things as they are, not worse than they are.”
– Unknown
“But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.”
– Aristotle
Q. Why aren’t Spanish actors allowed in the pub?
A. Because Javier Bardem.
– James Martin @Pundamentalism