Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.”
Variant: You become what you think about all day long.
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Source: Journey to the End of the Night (1932), Chapter 4
“Life consists
Of propositions about life.”
Wallace Stevens
(1879–1955) American poet
"Men Made Out of Words"
Transport to Summer (1947)
Context: Life consists
Of propositions about life. The human
Revery is a solitude in which
We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats
And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.
“I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."”
Robin Williams
(1951–2014) American actor and stand-up comedian
Reality...What a Concept (1979)
Seth Lloyd
(1960) American engineer
Seth Lloyd, cited in: Michael Schmiechen (2009) Newton's Principia Revisited. p. 885
Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788–1860) German philosopher
Essays, On Authorship and Style
Context: The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself; that is, it consists in his correctly distinguishing between what is necessary and what is superfluous. On the other hand, one should never sacrifice clearness, to say nothing of grammar, for the sake of being brief. To impoverish the expression of a thought, or to obscure or spoil the meaning of a period for the sake of using fewer words shows a lamentable want of judgment.