“Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
"Words I Never Said"
Albums, Lasers (2011)
“Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Jerome K. Jerome book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"On Eating and Drinking".
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Context: Foolish people — when I say "foolish people" in this contemptuous way I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Apologia, i
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIV - The Life of the World to Come
“The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.”
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) French bishop and theologian
Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture (1709)
“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“All violence stems from fear”
Carlos Gershenson (1978) Mexican researcher
Chorninky Notes (January 2010 - )
“All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.”
Herman Melville book Pierre: or, The Ambiguities
Bk. XIV, ch. 1
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
St. 4
"Stanzas on Freedom" (1843)
Paul of Tarsus book First Epistle to the Corinthians
I Corinthians 9:22 (KJV)
First Epistle to the Corinthians
Context: Though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Ratko Mladić (1943) Commander of the Bosnian Serb military
From interview with Robert Block, 1995
Interviews (1993 – 1995)