Category: writer
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Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Voltaire
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
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He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
Charles Dickens
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein
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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Aldous Huxley
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.
Simon Sinek