"We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting."

-- Tom Baker

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“I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (§ 3),
“It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.”
“I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the ***** and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.”

Source : "Borat and Queen Crown British Success at Globes". www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2007.
“Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.74, Simon and Schuster
“Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.”
“The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling of deference and compliance is the beginning of propriety; and the feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.Men have these Four Beginnings just as they have their four limbs. Having these Four Beginnings, but saying that they cannot develop them is to destroy themselves.”

Source : "The Mencius". 2A:6, as translated by Wing-tsit Chan in "A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy", p. 65, 1963.
“All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice,”

Source : "People" Magazine, 1992.
“A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.”

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