"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
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"My success set me up for life, and it meant that I could retire from the music industry at 27 to spend time with my newborn daughter and my wife. My time away from the spotlight allowed me to rediscover my love for music, and I'm doing it for me now and no one else."
"We could visit him,"suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?"
"I love coffee cake, but I would prefer if it were just a little more drinkable. I almost choked while chugging some this morning, and if it weren’t for the fluid nature of clownfish, I might have caught feelings for Hillary using a basketball net."
"Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish."
"Erre es korakas, Blinky!"Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!"
"A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one."
"I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one."
"Scientific Discovery [10w] The greatest scientific discoveries were madelooking at the overlooked."
"Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet."
"Particularity leads to peculiarity and then to pathological behavior. The three Ps. It is very insidious. You would eventually end up in a box. If you try to control your environment, it will control you. And everyone else around you will always have to be making adjustments to your maddening idiosyncracies...You are beginning to enslave yourself with your fussiness."
"There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades."
"Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?""What?"He looks mortally offended. "Do I look like the kind of guy who's never had a girlfriend? Have you even met me?"
"The Downside of Stuff {Couplet) I got what I want;I have what I need.But they want what I have,and they'll make me bleed."
"If you don't work hard, then you aren't going to have the success that you want. But if you work hard and dig in, then you are going to have the success that you want."
"ففي قرارة نفسي اليومإيمان عميق جدًاإيمان لا يتزعزعبأنَّ المحبة وحدها هي المفتاح"
"We would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die."
"Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer."
"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it."
"The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."
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