"If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough."
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
"The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him."
"We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds."
"Don't write to sell, write to tell."
"Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions."
"Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are"
"why are we here?where do we come from?traditionally,these are questionsfor philosophy,but philosophy is dead"
"No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
"Socrates should have written comics."
"He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon."
"Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?"So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive."
"It’s an already inside outside,The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing."
"My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you’ll remember; literature that matters."
"Watching TV at my own time. Its beneficiary, but watching TV at its own time . Its time wasting."
"Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love."
"Buffett does enjoy being a billionaire, but in offbeat ways. As he put it, though money cannot change your health or how many people love you, it lets you be in 'more interesting environments."
"How to Treat Your Lover {Couplet} If you want to learn how your lover best to treat,Pretend each time is the last time you'll ever meet."
"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
"The map is not the territory."