Billie Tsien Quotes & Sayings

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language. — Karl Kraus

I'm a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. — Michael Shermer

Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one's thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul. — Mata Amritanandamayi

To fit in with the change of events, words, too, had to change their usual meanings. What used to be described as a thoughtless act of aggression was now regarded as the courage one would expect to find in a party member; to think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one's unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action. Fanatical enthusiasm was the mark of a real man, and to plot against an enemy behind his back was perfectly legitimate self-defence. Anyone who held violent opinions could always be trusted, and anyone who objected to them became a suspect. — Thucydides

In order fully to transcend the artificial opposition that tends to be established between structures and representations, one also has to break away from the mode of thought that Cassirer calls substantialist and which leads people to recognize no realities except those that are available to direct intuition in ordinary experience, individuals and groups. — Pierre Bourdieu

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'. — Buddhadasa

I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies. — Joan Collins

And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will
be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. — David Levithan

Good art is not universal. Bruce Willis is universal. — Sherman Alexie