Bjornstjerne Martinus Quotes & Sayings

SOCRATES: But you do say that he who is a good rhapsode is also a good general. ION: Certainly. — Plato

We need rest not just so we feel better. We need rest for actual creation of what we're going to need the next day. — Henry Cloud

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. — Joyce Carol Oates

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran

perception rather than judgment. — Mike Cernovich

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes. — Kurt Vonnegut

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. — Paul R. Ehrlich

The winds are out of breath. — John Dryden

Yet you cannot let go. Why? I can let go. I can let you drop so easily. That is because I do not see you as a person but rather an appliance that I switch on and off. I don't need you for two months so I switch you off and put you away. You do not trouble my consciousness. Not once. So when I have subjected you to another bout of silent treatment and you are sat weeping into your glass of pinot grigio wondering aloud if I am thinking about you, I can help you with that. No I am not. You no longer exist to me. You never existed. — H.G. Tudor

Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts. — Neville Goddard

The stark, pedestrian images used by filmmakers (probably out of financial necessity) expressed nothing, symbolically or metaphorically. The only purpose they served was to remind me that a huge chunk of my life is completely over, even though I will probably live 60 more years. There are so many things that will never happen to me again, and I never even noticed when those things stopped occurring. And this does not mean I wish I had my old life back, because I like my new life better; I was just shocked to discover how much of what used to be central to my existence doesn't even matter to me anymore. — Chuck Klosterman

Deception, I came to realize, was one of the few remaining oral traditions. — Alex Stone