Charlbury Community Quotes & Sayings

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself. — J. Paul Getty

We want to feel that our world is intelligible, so we can be responsible for — Matthew B. Crawford

The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified. — Fred Tomaselli

I need to live like that crooked tree
...
that knelt down in the hardest winds
but could not be blasted away. — Edward Hirsch

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. — Leo Tolstoy

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Jon Krakauer

When the world is mine, then you all will be the 99.9%. — Scott Jonathan Nixon

Politics is a subordinate matter; its form of appearance constantly changes depending on the needs of the masses, the same way cocottes adjust to the needs of men by transforming and masking themselves. Because of that it is not fundamental. That is about what endures, what is unique, what is in the stream of illusions - what is eliminated from the workings of the shadows. — Max Beckmann

Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground, there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question:
"Where do we go from here? — Arthur C. Clarke

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte