Filakto Quotes & Sayings

Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe?
Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others. — Toba Beta

I came to photography by accident. — Eve Arnold

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art. — J. M. W. Turner

If the creator of the universe is spending all his time watching you, it must surly be because he loves you. — David Mazzucchelli

Sow a thought, reap an act; Sow an act, reap a habit; Sow a habit, reap a character; Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny. — Spencer W. Kimball

for it is better that we slay a coward, than through a coward all we to be slain. — Thomas Malory

Remind yourself every now and again that you can and will do better than your past & present performance. — Sarvesh Jain

Without ethics, everything happens as if we were all five billion passengers on a big machinery and nobody is driving the machinery. And it's going faster and faster, but we don't know where. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

To my sister who believed in me. — Gabrielle Michael

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate. — Appius Claudius Caecus

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams. — Les Brown

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price. — Nikola Tesla

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. — John Green

The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is no synthesis at all, but only the latest maneuver in the war against rationality that has been conducted with rising hysteria by literary intellectuals and humanists against the laws of a culture they have reason to distrust and disobey. The Jungian theory proposes to every disaffected humanist his "personal myth," as a sanctuary against the modern world. Against the vulgar democracy of intelligence, Jungian theory proposes an aristocracy of feeling. From this proposal derives Jung's persistent influence on modern critical and aesthetic style. — Philip Rieff

In some worlds there seems to be a synergy, but for the most part, what Kalkin said to you is the root truth: they are merely personifications of natural forces given whatever powers they possess by their worshippers. They have aspects that are perceived by mortals, and attributes they can wield. — Raymond E. Feist