Paternally Derived Quotes & Sayings

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own. — Thomas Friedman

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place. — Assata Shakur

I never feel any aggravation from the public. — Rod Stewart

I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me. — Elena Ferrante

There is no simple answer to such a question — Jacques Derrida

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect. — Robert M. Hutchins

Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion. — Terence McKenna

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner. — Jan Tschichold

Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself. — Charles Spurgeon