"The unexamined life is not worth living."
— Socrates
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should
be. Be one."
— Marcus Aurelius
"The society that separates its scholars from its
warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its
fighting by fools."
— Thucydides
"Fortes Fortuna Iuvat."
— Terence
"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of
physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old
without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body
is capable."
— Socrates
"No tree, it is said, can grow to Heaven unless it's
roots reach down to Hell."
— Carl Jung
"It is far better to render beings in your care
competent than to protect them."
— Jordan Peterson
"And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until
you see what weak men are capable of."
— Jordan Peterson
"I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into
your capacity for good until you have some
well-developed insight into your capacity for evil."
— Jordan Peterson
"A harmless man is not a good man. A good man is a very,
very dangerous man who has that under voluntary
control."
— Jordan Peterson
"If there is a rifle hanging on the wall in act one, it
must be fired in the next act. Otherwise it has no
business being there."
— Anthon Chekhov
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is
clear, simple and wrong."
— Henry Louis Mencken
"Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions
that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them drugs
to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction?"
— Theodore Kaczynski
"The concept of "mental health" in our society is
defined largely by the extent to which an individual
behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does
so without showing signs of stress."
— Theodore Kaczynski
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a
profoundly sick society."
— J. Krishnamurti
"The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those
who are killing it have names and addresses."
— Utah Phillips
"By 2030 you'll own nothing and be happy."
— World Economic Forum (WEF)
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science
gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
— Isaac Asimov
"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise
live rent-free in your head."
— Esther Lederer
"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough
can you see the stars."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do
that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do
that."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human
stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the
Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
— Arthur C. Clarke
"Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself.
Through our ears, the universe is listening to its
harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the
universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its
magnificence."
— Alan Wilson Watts
"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to
you."
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
"If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my
own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare
suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this
place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed."
— Diocletian
"Well, the two men took to fighting
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of
pieces gone"
— Jim Croce (Bad Bad Leroy Brown)
"Well, a hush fell over the pool room
Jimmy come boppin' in off the street
And when the cuttin' was done
The only part that wasn't bloody
Was the soles of the big man's feet"
— Jim Croce (You Don’t Mess Around with Jim)
Like a rock
Standin' arrow straight
Like a rock
Chargin' from the gate
Like a rock
Carryin' the weight
Like a rock
Oh, like a rock
The sun upon my skin
Like a rock
Hard against the wind
Like a rock
I see myself again
Like a rock
Oh, like a rock
— Bob Seger (Like a Rock)
"We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here"
— Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here)
"And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun"
— Pink Floyd (Time)
"And if the cloudbursts thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"
— Pink Floyd (Brain Damage)
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while
loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Lao Tzu