"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Philosophical Quotes #Conceit Quotes #Frivolity Quotes

“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“A geek is like a dork. Someone whoâ€™s on the fringe, who you wouldnâ€™t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.â€ â€œYouâ€™re not a nerd!â€ â€œItâ€™s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me Iâ€™m weird.â€ I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. â€œI mean, why be normal?”
“What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that twice in the last century. Isolationsim, refusing to accept our role in the world, and delaying our response to evildoers ultimately cost fifty-three million lives in World War 2 alone. The preemption policy of the Bush administration, taking the war to the enemy and exporting democracy and freedom, has liberated fifty million.”
“Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.”
“The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.”
“The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.”
“We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.”
“Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.”

Source : Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, (100), 1943.

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