"How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false."

-- Peter Sloterdijk

#Ironic Quotes #Joking Around Quotes #Gestures Quotes

“The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the somewhat futile attempt to explain them...it's my reason for living I guess...to ask 'why?'. I don't know what else to do with myself. In some strange way it's probably an attempt to understand myself and my own relationship to the world.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.”

Source : Josephine Hart (1999). “The Stillest Day”, Overlook Books
“I have decided to give up heterosexuality. I have decided that, while the project of altering the balance of power within heterosexual relationships is still a valid one, it is no longer one I can espouse--so to speak. There is no revolutionary hope for the heterosexual, and I have therefore decided to love myself and become a lesbian.”
“When you get performance slots for award shows - that's a big deal for me.”
“But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts.”

Source : Sir Gavin De Beer (1956). “Science and the humanities”
“People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.”
“The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.”
“I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.”

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