“So what shape was the world in this morning? Even flatter than yesterday.”
John Brunner book The Jagged Orbit
Source: The Jagged Orbit (1969), Chapter 3, “Spoolpigeon” (p. 9)
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“Religion is more conservative than any other aspect of human life.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
The Near East (1968), p. 14
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“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher
“There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.”
Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist
Free the Airwaves! (2002)
“Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call the reality?”
George MacDonald book Phantastes
not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier?
Phantastes (1858)
“I am at heart more of a United-States-man than an Englishman.”
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
Letter to Andrew Jackson (14 June 1830), quoted in Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, Volume 4, ed. David Maydole Matteson (1929), p. 146
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
Albert Camus book A Happy Death
A Happy Death (1971)
“Turning to God with the deep of the heart is much better than tiring the organs.”
Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism
[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, From the Reality of Faith, 2005]
Ad-Durr an-Nadhīm, p.223.
“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
Plautus (-254–-184 BC) Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period
“I can memorize Shakespearian dialogue faster than modern dialogue.”
Art Evans (actor) (1942) American actor
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
“Day and night are nothing more than illusions before our eyes.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“There is nothing more important in the world than being a person's reason for living.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Non c'è niente di più importante al mondo che essere la ragione di vita di una persona.
Source: prevale.net
“The brightness of a person decidetly causes more envy than material things.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La luminosità di una persona provoca decisamente più invidia delle cose materiali.
Source: prevale.net
Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
Anatol Rapoport (1956) "The Search for Simplicity"
1950s
