F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window....
Tag: philosophy
Sun Tzu
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust....
Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
Do you know what punishments I’ve endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men’s most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn’t tolerate my existence....
William Blake
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness....
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy....
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Anyway—because we are readers, we don’t have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis—at any time of...
George S. Patton Jr.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived....
Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch....
Tom Wolfe
A cult is a religion with no political power....
Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end....
