“Diabetes is caused by melancholy”

Thomas Willis

“It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”

Jack Handy

“To daddy, the real world gets fainter and fainter every day”  – Homer

“Il faut collectionner les pierres qu’on vous jette. C’est le début d’un piédestal.”

“Collect the stones that  are thrown at you.  It is the beginning [foundation] of a pedestal.”

– Hector Berlioz

“Very high probabilities are different from certainties. Very high probabilities are usually derived from calculations whose relevance and validity are themselves uncertain.”

– John Kay

“A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there’s work to be done.”

— Ram Dass

“In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.”

– Michel Foucault

“Black sheep are still sheep.”

– Discordian memebomb

“Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

– William James

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Que celui qui n’a pas traversé ne se moque pas de celui qui s’est noyé.”

– Proverbe Africain

“That the one who did not [swim] across not make fun of the one who drowned.”

– African Proverb

“To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun.”

– Albert Camus

“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.”

– Gustave Flaubert

“It’s the fault of course, of our philosophy of life; and our philosophy is the inevitable byproduct of a language that separates in idea what in actual fact is always inseparable. It separates and at the same time it evaluates. One of the abstractions is ‘good,’ and the other is ‘bad.’ Judge not that ye be judged. But the nature of language is such that we can’t help judging. What we need is another set of words. Words that can express the natural togetherness of things. Muco-spiritual, for example, or dermatocharity. Or why not mastonoetic? But translated, of course, out of the indecent obscurity of a learned language into something you could use in everyday speech or even in lyrical poetry. How hard it is, without those still non-existent words, to discuss even so simple and obvious a case as Ruth’s! The best one can do is to flounder about in metaphors.”

Aldous Huxley

— Genius and the Goddess , p. 53

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“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”

– Jean-Paul Sartre

“The men of old knew that life comes without warning, and as
suddenly goes. They denied none of their natural inclinations, and
repressed none of their bodily desires. They never felt the spur
of fame. They sauntered through life gathering its pleasures as
the impulse moved them. Since they cared nothing for fame after
death, they were beyond the law. For name and praise, sooner or
later, a long life or short one, they cared not at all.”

– Lao Tzu

“Sedulously eschew obfuscatory hyper verbosity and prolixity”

– unknown

“Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.”

– Benny Hill

“Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.”

– Charles Baudelaire

“It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.”

– William Shakespeare

“The description is not the described”

–  Jiddu Krishnamurti

“When you’re looking for the gorilla you miss other unexpected events.”

– The Monkey Business Illusion

“For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.”

– Marc Maron

“If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.”

– Timothy Leary

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

– Alan Watts

“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”

– Jean Genet

“There’s no problem, only teachers”

– Jacques Prévert