For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil. Maybe that’s the guilt.
But then she looks at you, and in you there is sun, there is love, there is life. – FELLINI.
Confidence,” he told us, “is the stuff that turns thoughts into action.
PSA89.26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. PSA89.27 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
El sexo es el consuelo que uno tiene cuando no le alcanza el amor.
You don’t take a traveler for a partner if you hope that the world will always stay the same. You do it because you can’t quite break away, yourself, but you can’t live without the promise of change hanging over you every day.
Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That’s agribusiness.
Our story is the story of the Universe. Every piece of every one and every thing you love, of every thing you hate, of every thing you hold precious, was assembled in the first few minutes of the life of the Universe, and transformed in the hearts of stars or created in their fiery deaths. When you die those pieces will be returned to the Universe in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. What a wonderful thing to be a part of that universe – and what a story. What a majestic story!
Pretty sure we just arrived in bloody hell. Always thought you’d end up here, Minho, but not me.
To demand of a man, who does not care to live any longer for himself, that he should live on as a mere machine for the advantage of others is an extravagant pretension.
The magic on you is only magic and will vanish as soon as you are free, but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.
Death takes what man would keep,” said the butterfly, “and leaves what man would lose. Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks. I warm my hands before the fire of life and get four-way relief.
Did you know everyone thinks that one day they might be a millionaire? Like that’s a lot of money. They have no idea. They don’t want to be a superhero. They just want to be like me.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
207. He who walks in the company of fools suffers a long way; company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful; company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinsfolk.
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, Find my soul and I’m yours forever.
Thoughts are free and subject to no rule.
But it is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
Linus Pauling famously said, “If you want a good idea, start with a lot of ideas.
He saves his iciest hate for economists. Taleb has no use for the “charlatanic” field, comparing economic research to medieval medicine.