Begynnande Quotes & Sayings

The Quantified Self movement argues that the self is nothing but mathematical patterns. These patterns are so complex that the human mind has no chance of understanding them. So if you wish to obey the old adage and know thyself, you should not waste your time on philosophy, meditation or psychoanalysis, but rather you should systematically collect biometric data and allow algorithms to analyse them for you and tell you who your are and what you should do. — Yuval Noah Harari

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. — Euripides

My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One — Zeno Of Elea

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves. — Morgan Llywelyn

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible. — Gerhard Richter

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision. — Ralph Nader

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. — Emma Thompson

We should pray and seek for knowledge which would enable us to portray and project the things we love in music, in a way that might wholly or in some part, be appreciated as having been conceived and composed or performed and presented with dedication and in positive taste — John Coltrane

you do not escape from money by being moneyless. On the contrary, you are the hopeless slave of money until you have enough of it to live on — George Orwell

The finding that ME and CFS group had more functional limitations and more serious symptoms than those with MS [multiple sclerosis] provides additional evidence to the seriousness of ME and CFS. — Leonard A. Jason

happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." ~ Ruth Bell Graham. — Lisa Jacobson

Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required. — Ramana Maharshi

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. — Charles Caleb Colton