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“We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.”
Source : Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”
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“Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.”
Source : Kathryn Schulz (2010). “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error”, p.8, Harper Collins
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“I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.”
Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.294, Macmillan
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“I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.”
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“People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.”
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“This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!”
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“Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.”
Source : Max Heindel (1920). “The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development”, p.71, Lulu.com
