Quotes
Authors
Samuel Scheffler

"Our actual lives, including our values, our social relations, our self-conceptions, and many of our concepts, are pervasively shaped both by the knowledge and by the fact that we will someday die - that we are subject to extreme temporal scarcity. There is no reason to think that, if we were immortal, the same things would continue to matter to us. We have little or no idea what, if anything, would matter to immortal beings, or even how such beings would think of themselves."

-- Samuel Scheffler

#Thinking Quotes #What If Quotes #Someday Quotes

“I was starting to realize the extent of the problem here: everyone is always lying to each other, and even when they're trying to tell the truth, it can still be misleading or wrong. In fact, it almost always is wrong from at least one angle. I mean, the truth is really just a better class of lie.”

Source : Frank Portman (2008). “King Dork”, p.238, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.”
“Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.”

Source : Jane Porter (1854). “The Scottish Chiefs, etc”, p.1
“A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.”
“Any friendship or relationship is about a language.”
“You never know what your opportunities are going to be.”
“I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2009.
“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.”

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