Nonsensual Quotes & Sayings

I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place. — Herodotus

These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up. — Chuck Person

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further. — Zach Wamp

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they
wish to seem unusually pious. — Baruch Spinoza

Well, I don't have anything to say to Mr. Sneddon, you know? Nothing at all. — Tito Jackson

In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others. — Christopher Hitchens

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband. — Jeanette Winterson

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year. — Nick Cave

To tolerate is to insult. — Bruce Lee

The Buddha, in recovering his capacity for nonsensual joy, learned that this joy was limitless. He found that if he got himself out of the way, his joy completely suffused his mindful awareness. This gave him the confidence, the stability, the trust, and the means to see clearly whatever presented itself to his mind. In the curious bifurcation of consciousness that meditation develops, where we can be both observer and that which is being observed, the quality of joy that he recovered did not remain an internal object. It was not only a memory or merely a feeling to be observed; it was also a quality of mind that could accompany every moment of mindfulness. The more he accepted the presence of this feeling and the more it toggled between being object and subject, the closer the Buddha came to understanding his true nature. — Mark Epstein

It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil. — Ramsay MacDonald