Minori Quotes & Sayings

No one will ever know what manifold difficulties I've had to overcome in order to bring to a conclusion this first part of my chronicle. In certain dreams you feel leaden, numb, paralyzed, incapable of moving even though frightful and ferocious enemies are closing in on you. A constraint, curb, impediment of this order were a constant obstacle to the, oh, so very long and arduous composition of this work. And yet with every one of these stories the fact of having committed it to writing relieved me of a genuine millstone. My only regret is not to have completely unburdened myself. I'm still sadly short of reaching that target. — Jacques Yonnet

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know
I mean our human reason
is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. — Voltaire

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
[Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] — Statius

Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark ... — Robert McCammon

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time. — Ben Gibbard

Hold on to your passion - you'll need it! — Sherry Turkle