Philbert X Quotes & Sayings

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. — Freeman Dyson

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god . — Socrates

Obviously it was meant to tell us nothing, which is exactly the opposite function of a book. — Gareth Roberts

Eventually my mother suffered a complete breakdown, and the court orders were finally signed. They took her to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo. My mother remained in the same hospital at Kalamazoo for about 26 years.
My last visit, when I knew I would never come to see her again-there-was in 1952. I was twenty-seven. My brother Philbert had told me that on his last visit, she had recognized him somewhat. "In spots" he said.
But she didn't recognize me at all.
She stared at me. She didn't know who I was.
Her mind, when I tried to talk, to reach her, was somewhere else. I asked, "Mama, do you know what day it is?"
She said, staring, "All the people have gone."
I can't describe how I felt. The woman who had brought me into the world, and nursed me, and advised me, and chastised me, and loved me, didn't know me.
It was as if I was trying to walk up the side of a hill of feathers."
-Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you. — Daniel Kahneman

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. — Seneca The Younger

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth. — Bob Marley

But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting. — Julian Coolidge

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch. — Martin Luther

All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union. — Malcolm X

After Brexit referendum, our country faces major challenges. Risks to the economy and living standards are growing. The public is split.The government is in disarray. Ministers have made it clear they have no exit plan, but are determined to make working people pay with a new round of cuts and tax rises. — Wes Streeting