Aargon Quotes & Sayings

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits. — Frederick Lenz

What redemption there is in being loved: we are always our best selves when loved by another. Nothing can replace this. — Maggie O'Farrell

If we are to reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions.
Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace. — Ariel Sharon

Imagine being able to plot in advance, in systematic fashion, the approach of all meaningful coincidences. Is that a priori, by the very meaning of the word, not a contradiction? After all, a coincidence, or as Pauli called it, a manifestation of synchronicity, is by its very nature not dependent on the past; hence nothing exists as a harbinger of it (cf. David Hume on the topic; in particular the train whistle versus the train). This state, not knowing what is going to happen next and therefore having no way of controlling it, is the sine qua non of the unhappy world of the schizophrenic; he is helpless, passive, and instead of doing things, he is done to. Reality happens to him
a sort of perpetual auto accident, going on and on without relief. — Philip K. Dick

I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible. — Dani Shapiro

If you broke Elena's heart, Star Wars would spill out. This was a holy day for her
it was a cosmic event. This was her planets lining up. (Tatooine, Coruscant, Hoth.) — Rainbow Rowell

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind. — William Shakespeare

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love. — Shelley Duvall

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen. — James Lileks

If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly. — Miyamoto Musashi

Casualties? What do I care about casualties? — Aylmer Hunter-Weston