Scavenger Cosmologies Quotes & Sayings

Every great thinker is someone else's moron. — Umberto Eco

Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discredited - and indeed the threat to it is great enough - then your world collapses. There is nothing left for you but to despair of everything, of civilization and the future of mankind. From that bondage I am, we are, free. Since we are prepared to renounce a good part of our infantile wishes, we can bear it if a few of our expectations turn out to be illusions. — Sigmund Freud

As awful as it had been, their exchange hung on in her mind as a model of what can happen, of what had almost never happened at any other point in her life: that two different people see each other and help each other, while carrying on being themselves. If — Sarah Tolmie

We cannot understand the relationship between poverty and education without understanding the biases and inequities experienced by people in poverty. — Paul C. Gorski

Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored! — Eckhart Tolle

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet. — Barry Diller

The only place that I wanna be is where you are, cause any more than a heartbeat away is just too far. — Keith Urban

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. — Hesiod

This book Is intended to be read in bed. Please do not attempt to read it anywhere else. — Christopher Morley

We know that the Furies do not come uninvited. — Katherine Anne Porter

To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I thought of it, who could say I was any different? If you no longer have leaves, or bark, or roots, can you go on calling yourself a tree? "I am a peasant," I said to myself, "and not a geisha at all any longer." It was a frightening feeling to look at my hands and see their roughness. To draw my mind away from my fears, I turned my attention again to the truckloads of soldiers driving past. Weren't these the very American soldiers we'd been taught to hate, who had bombed our cities with such horrifying weapons? Now they rode through our neighborhood, throwing pieces of candy to the children. — Arthur Golden

People might feel sorry for a man who's fallen on hard times, but when an entire nation is poor, the rest of the world assumes that all its people must be brainless, lazy, dirty, clumsy fools. Instead of pity, the people provoke laughter. It's all a joke: their culture, their customs, their practices. In time the rest of the world may, some of them, begin to feel ashamed for having thought this way, and when they look around and see immigrants from that poor country mopping their floors and doing all the other lowest paying jobs, naturally they worry about what might happen if these workers one day rose up against them. So, to keep things sweet, they start taking an interest in the immigrants' culture and sometimes even pretend they think of them as equals. — Orhan Pamuk

After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are. — George Lucas

So what could the hypothetical aliens learn from us that has any value to them? The correct answer is the humanities. — Edward O. Wilson