Aliud Velle Quotes & Sayings

Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering. — Desiderius Erasmus

As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word. — Floyd McClung

Course you can't fucking see, buddy, it's darker than a nun's virgin anus down here. — Charlie Huston

The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate. — Erich Fromm

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences. — Harper Lee

Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by form, which is born between people. His "I", therefore, is marked for him in that "interhumanity." An eternal actor, but a natural one, because his artificiality is inborn, it makes up a feature of his humanity-to be a man means to be an actor-to be a man means to pretend to be a man-to be a man means to "act like" a man while not being one deep inside-to be a man is to recite humanity. — Witold Gombrowicz

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean. — Mason Cooley

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. — W. Clement Stone

The Highest, after all, is not to comprehend the Highest, but to do it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality. — Ayn Rand

You're not a dork, you're adorkable. — Elizabeth Fama