Capaill Oir Quotes & Sayings

But since the time of Leibnitz, it is hard to find philosophers who stress relatedness in any way. There is Henri Bergson, and before him the romantics, and Marx with his talk of the brotherhood of revolution, and Martin Buber with his I and Thou, but by and large modern philosophy is about aloneness. We are forlorn, abandoned. — Stuart Miller

Even a guy like Jim Norton is clinging to his one empty tradition like anyone gives a care. My prayers for his death, as always, went unanswered. — Colin Quinn

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy. — Laura Kightlinger

A day should be your controlling and managing factor — Sunday Adelaja

Hidden and unknown
Like the new moon
I will live my life — Basho Matsuo

For man to set himself up as man, means the adoption of a super-nature, a superior nature that is nothing other than culture whose effect is the emancipation of reflective consciousness from the repetitious constraints of the species. What this means especially is that man is given the possibility of going beyond himself and transforming. In other words, to ensure that each "super-nature" obtained is simply a step towards another "super-nature." Now this project is the equivalent of making man a kind of god - allowing him to participate in the Divine - a perspective the Bible depicts as an "abomination. — Alain De Benoist

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.' — Jennifer McMahon

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less. — Charles Bukowski

It was not just the drink, though, that was making me happy, but the tenderness of things, the simple goodness of the world. This sunset, for instance, how lavishly it was laid on, the clouds, the light on the sea, that heartbreaking, blue-green distance, laid on, all of it, as if to console some lost suffering waybarer. I have never really got used to being on this earth. Somethings I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we were meant for another planet altogether, with other arrangements, and other laws, and other, grimmer skies. I try to imagine it, our true place, off on the far side of the galaxy, whirling and whirling. And the ones who were meant for here, are they out there, baffled and homesick, like us? No, they would have become extinct long ago. How could they survive, these gentle earthlings, in a world that was meant to contain us? — John Banville

Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case. — Woody Allen

Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living. — Taitetsu Unno

Papa Ubu: Captain Bordure, I've decided to make you Duke of Lithuania. — Alfred Jarry

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others. — Amy Johnson

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life. — Geoffrey Boycott