I discovered something that was more exciting than physics: language. The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk
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Quote:- I discovered that it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing. That is, we have to believe in something which has no form and no color--something which exists before all forms and colors appear... No matter what god or doctrine you believe in, if you become attached to it, your belief will be based more or less on a self-centered idea.
Author:- Shunryu Suzuki
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die.
A History of Western Philosophy
Author:- Bertrand Russell
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- I dislike this whole business of experimentation on animals, unless there's some very good and altogether exceptional reason to this very case. The thing that gets me is that it's not possible for the animals to understand why they are being called upon to suffer. They don't suffer for their own good or benefit at all, and I often wonder how far it's for anyone's. They're given no choice, and there is no central authority responsible for deciding whether what's done is morally justifiable. These experiment animals are just sentient objects; they're useful because they are able to react; sometimes precisely because they're able to feel fear and pain. And they're used as if they were electric light bulbs or boots. What it comes to is that whereas there used to be human and animal slaves, now there are just animal slaves. They have no legal rights or choices in the matter.
Author:- Richard Adams
Category:- science
Quote:- I distrust every idea that doesn’t seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries.
Author:- Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.
After Dark
Author:- Haruki Murakami
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.''They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.
Five Go Off in a Caravan
Author:- Enid Blyton
Category:- time
Quote:- I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
Author:- Karl Lagerfeld
Category:- best
Quote:- I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.
Author:- Clarence Darrow
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as did my father, who was a Baptist minister. And I am not an atheist, one who thinks that belief in anything beyond the here and now and the rational is delusion. I love science, but I allow for mystery, things that can never be proven by a rational mind. I am a person who thinks about the nature of the spirit when I write. I think about what can't be known and only imagined. I often sense a spirit or force or meaning beyond myself. I leave it open as to what the spirit is, but I continue to make guesses -- that it could be the universal binding of the emotion of love, or a joyful quality of humanity, or a collective unconscious that turns out to be a unified conscience. The spirit could be all those worshiped by all the religions, even those that deny the validity of others. It could be that we all exist in all ten dimensions of a string-theory universe and are seeding memories in all of them and occupy them simultaneously as memory. Or we exist only as thought and out perception that it is a physical world is a delusion. The nature of spirit could also be my mother and my grandmother and that they really do serve as my muses as I fondly imagine them doing at times. Or maybe the nature of the spirit is a freer imagination. I've often thought that imagination was the conduit to compassion, and compassion is a true spiritual nature. Whatever the spirit might be, I am not basing what I do in this life on any expected reward or punishment in the hereafter or thereafter. It is enough that I feel blessed -- and by whom or what I don't know -- but I receive it with gratitude that I am a writer and my work is to imagine all the possibilities.
Author:- Amy Tan
Category:- science
Quote:- I do not even agree with classifying writing as 'classic' or 'contemporary'. Great writing is contemporary regardless of when it was written. It is always timely. It communicates with readers across time and space. A great piece of writing is contemporary whether written yesterday or ten centuries ago.
Author:- Louis Yako
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- I do not fight to win, I never did and never will. I have always fought to kill!!
Veni Vidi Vici: How to win and achieve all that you want from life!
Author:- Krishna Mohan Avancha
Category:- motivational
Quote:- I do not have much idea about love, but it would be nice to believe it’s the totality of you.
Caffeinated Daydreams
Author:- Bella Coronel
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- I do not intend to waste my life but to do great deeds.
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- motivational
Quote:- i do not invest in domains in which I have no emotional attachment
Author:- Anuj Jasani
Category:- motivational
Quote:- I do not need to find happiness. I can create happiness all on my own.
Author:- The Thoughtful Beast
Category:- inspiration,motivational
Quote:- I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.
The One-Straw Revolution
Author:- Masanobu Fukuoka
Category:- time
Quote:- I do not remember anything, I have no answer to your questions, if you have doubts on me, then this love cannot run on the basis of any doubt
Author:- Chandrakant Kannake
Category:- Love
Quote:- I do not truly fight because I want to be king or Emperor or whatever word you slap above my name in the history texts. The universe does not notice us. There is no supreme being waiting to end existence when the last man breathes his final breath. Man will end. That is the fact accepted, but never discussed. And the universe will continue without care. I will not let that happen, because I believe in man. I would have us continue forever. I would shepherd us out of the Solar System into alien ones. Seek new life. We are barely in our infancy as a species. But I would make man the immutable fixture in the universe, not just some passing bacteria that flashes and fades with no one to remember.
Golden Son
Author:- Pierce Brown
Category:- science