Quotes I

"Time spent hoping for happier days is time spent turning away from life."

"The true cost of something is what you give up to get it."

"Anguish emerges from craving for a life to be other than it is."

"People grow up in particular societies in particular periods, and their ideas cannot but reflect the constraints of the environment they have known."

"Many fail to grasp what they have seen, and cannot judge what they have learned, although they tell themselves they know." Heraclitus

"There’s nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Most people would rather die than think; most people do." Bertrand Russell

"Habit is an effective tranquilizer but its side effects include blindness, deafness and atrophy of the brain." Michael Foley

"The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake." Bertrand Russell

"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." Woody Allen

"It started with a feeling of unease. I saw inconsistencies between what people said and did. I thought the way they lived was very foolish, that they didn't know  how to live. (...) There was no reason to do the done thing. You could do what wasn't done.  Gradually, without any rebellion, a sort of stupidity became evident. I wanted to get rid of it, so I worked to do so. Once I was a student and began to plan my life,  I tried to distance myself as much as possible from this ready made plan. I wanted to invent my life. I thought it would feel much better than repeating tested routines."

Simone de Beauvoir

"Do we own our own stories or do they own us?"

"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know." Henry David Thoreau

"No es saludable estar bien adaptado a una sociedad profundamente enferma." Jiddu krishnamurt

 

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." John Steinbeck

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw