"[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily."

-- Aristophanes

#War Quotes #Winning Quotes #Men Quotes

“The self is not a thing, but a process.”

Source : Thomas Metzinger (2010). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.208, Basic Books
“Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.”
“In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.”
“Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.”
“He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.”
“I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.”
“It comes with age. I can't watch movies that are inhumane.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.”

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