Commencement famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that enable objects to have significance and salience - as hammers, pots, trees or whatever.

  • I try to break a sweat every day. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's the goal.

  • The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

  • Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

  • Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves

  • Rock star do not jump!" The launch was cutting sharply, its skipper calling out a phrase that bore no relationship to the English language as Amy knew it. "Rock star in a hurry!" Nellie replied, one foot on the boat's gunwale.

  • There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

  • An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one

  • Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

  • The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering