"We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion."

-- Michael S. Heiser

#Rebellion Quotes #Hubris Quotes

“If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.”
“We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.”

Source : Gary Taubes (2010). “Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It”, p.99, Anchor
“Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”
“When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.”
“Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.”
“In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism, but the completion of it. For what can be more destructive of truth and value than the doctrine that these are simply the impositions on the world of human exercises of power?”
“I read nothing. I watch nothing. I haven't even seen myself in the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. I don't look back. I don't allow myself to be influenced by people who don't know me. I'm incredibly thin-skinned. When you wander through this life as an exposed nerve, you have to make sure you remain insulated to a certain extent.”
“If you turn the heat down on the relationship, she will soften, the tension will lessen, and she will eventually inch closer to you. Don't go in for the hug until you achieve a handshake.”

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