Consciente Preconsciente Quotes & Sayings

To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order. There is scarcely any man alive who does not think himself meritorious for giving his neighbour five pounds. Thriftless gives, not from a beneficent pleasure in giving, but from a lazy delight in spending. He would not deny himself one enjoyment; not his opera-stall, not his horse, not his dinner, not even the pleasure of giving Lazarus the five pounds. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea that there are activists and ordinary people. — Avi Lewis

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' — Alison Gopnik

Victory after all, I suppose! ... Well, it seems a very gloomy business. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I think they need to remove the general. He is unfit for the position he is being called upon to serve, precisely because he's become a liability. He's become a weapon our enemies will use against us. — James Zogby

The big idea behind it was to somehow participate in the discussion about justice. What does it mean to be just to the others out there whose lives we do not think about. One of the answers I came up with was simply tell their stories. — Teju Cole

how young twenty-four is when you're not fourteen. — Jessica Knoll

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man. — George R R Martin

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. — Fanny Brice

A disciplined mind invites true joy. — Yongey Mingyur

She could forgive him for missing their dinner date, but she would never forgive him for dying. — Chrys Fey

The Void is not being, but not being cannot be, ergo the Void cannot be. The reasoning was sound, because it denied the Void while granting that it could be conceived. In fact, we can quite easily conceive things that do not exist. Can a chimera, buzzing in the Void, devour second intentions? No, because chimeras do not exist, in the Void no buzzing can be heard, and intentions are mental things
an intended pear does not nourish us. And yet I can think of a chimera even if it is chimerical, namely, if it is not. And the same with the Void. — Umberto Eco

I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives, and we stop having aspirations for being in a definite state, we know life better and are able to enjoy it better. — Abbas Kiarostami

Crushes are supposed to be fun, aren't they? They definitely aren't supposed to be so torturous. — Nina LaCour