“Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“I want things to be beautiful, not realistic.”
— Of Montreal
“Poison, poison… tasty fish!”
— The Simpsons, Season 2, Episode 11
“What’s the point in leaving the house if I’m just going to come back?”
— Homer Simpson
“Your abuser’s trauma doesn’t justify them abusing you.”
— Unknown
“What all does this mean for our forecast? Well, first off, let’s just get it out of the way: it is summer, and we are in the South — so expect the heat to continue.”
— National Weather Service
“there were all kinds of weird possibilities that were counter intuitive””
— Richard Feynman
“A lot o’ people don’t realize what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don’t realize that there’s this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate of shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in looking for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.”
— Miller (Repo Man)
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
— Fitzgerald (Gatsby)
“I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.”
— Kerouac (Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935–46)
“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
— Alan Turing
“You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.”
— John von Neumann
“Objective reality, the world view produced by the spirit of scientific inquiry, is the myth of our time.”
— Albert Hofmann
“I think that’s what we’re all most terrified about: that we’ll just die and disappear and we’ll leave no trace.”
— Daniel Clowes
“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself.”
— Martin Heidegger
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
(what a downer!)
“Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.”
— John McLaughlin