"The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained. People are of two kinds, really: from the Valley, and from Elsewhere."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Class Quotes

“Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.”
“The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.”
“I'll be yours until the stars fall from the sky, yours until the rivers run dry. In other words, until the day I day.”
“Islam is based on naql (texts) and â€˜aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts â€“ we call them naql-heads.”
“Science leads you to killing people.”
“She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me!" .... "The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me!" .... (and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)”
“I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.”
“As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born â€“ and particularly bad luck it is.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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