Metafictional Transcendence Quotes & Sayings

A Spendthrift.-He has not yet the poverty of the rich man who has counted all his treasure,-he squanders his spirit with the irrationalness of the spendthrift Nature. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion? — Stephen Jay Gould

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute. — Alfred Stieglitz

Don't sabotage yourself. There are plenty of other people willing to do that for free. — Jenny Lawson

It's like your sadness is so deep and overwhelming that you're worried it will drown everyone else in your life if you let them too close to it. — Jasmine Warga

We have progressed in a technological sense, but I'm not so sure whether we have progressed in a civilizational matter - the quality of the civilization has not improved. It's a civilization that's in love with technology but forgetting about the human side of it and the destructive tendency in human civilization has not been faced. — Laszlo Nemes

The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with constitutional rights. I just hope he doesn't do anything rash, like declare that homosexuals are people with constitutional rights. — Stephen Colbert