“The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.”
― Abraham Lincoln 1864
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
- H.G. Wells
Better to piss on the sink than sink in the piss
Haha but really my favorite quote is
Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Really helps me feel better about the fact that I’m a 28 year old man who exclusively watches anime
CS Lewis?
Hell yeah it is
Comparison is the thief of happiness.
I have many favorites, but this comes to mind often.
Fear shrinks the brain.
Is another good one.
No wonder psychiatrists are called shrinks.
Funny. “Fear keeps you alive” is one I use fairly often.
lol also true! I think of mine more in the context of when I see things from the media. If they seem to be instilling fear (omg immigrants are coming, they’re scary), it’s because they don’t want you to think critically.
Yeah, the challenge is really to figure out if a fear is useful, or an unhelpful remnant from earlier on in your own life, or in evolution.
Wholeheartedly agree
Fear is the mind-killer
I like that. Also, “if they want you to be afraid, they don’t want you to think.”
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Or, if you like it more pithy: “The difference between theory and practice is larger in theory than it is in practice.”
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Aren’t you confusing cynicism with skepticism?
No, “those” people are
When working on an office, it’s great and all that you have “the power of accurate observation” but god our Debbie downer is insufferable.
That’s a pretty accurate way of looking at things.
I doubt.
When I was in high school, a friend of mine came from a Republican family. He once told me “You think that if it would be nice that a thing were true, that means it is true”.
It took me a long time to understand what he meant, but I finally do, and he was spot on with how my philosophy worked.
Don’t do what you think you have to do… only do what you absolutely must do
Change your perspective… and the reality changes!
That’s what a daycare npc told me in Pokemon Black. Although I haven’t really found much use for the quote, it has stuck with me for long.
Reality is the cross product of the matrix of conditions and the vector of one’s own perspective.
David Foster Wallace: You’ll stop worrying* what others think about you when you realize how seldom they do.
/* It might ‘caring’ rather than ‘worrying’, I’m not sure, and can’t be bothered finding the book to check it.
It’s also possible that DFW didn’t coin this phrase.
The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Blood of the Martyr”
Oi oi oi. Me gotta hurt in here. Me smell a ting is near. Gonna bosh, and gonna nosh, and then the ting will disappear.
— Uthden Troll
Those who will not follow are doomed to lead.
From the Magic: The Gathering card “Anarchist”
We have not created the heavens and the earth and everything in between except for a purpose. And the Hour is certain to come, so forgive graciously.
15:85 Quran
Though there are questions as to its veracity, “a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad”. As an artist, this is the reason I’ll never rush things and spend ample time on my art.
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing more of.”
-also Hunter S. Thompson, probably
I’m a simple man:
“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.
Based pooh
“To know which questions are unanswerable, and to not answer them: this is the skill that is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
- Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula LeGuin has definitely seen some shit
Being a socialist living under capitalism will do that to you.
lol not politics I mean some shit. Pretty sure she survived a nuclear holocaust in a parallel dimension, at least
