Tavanic Quotes & Sayings

I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything:
And this they call dog and that they call house,
here the start and there the end.
I worry about their mockery with words,
they know everything, what will be, what was;
no mountain is still miraculous;
and their house and yard lead right up to God.
I want to warn and object: Let the things be!
I enjoy listening to the sound they are making.
But you always touch: and they hush and stand still.
That's how you kill. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy. — Mortimer Zuckerman

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible — Barack Obama

The day is not far distant when humanity will realize that biologically it is faced with a choice between suicide and adoration. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. — Oscar Wilde

I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. — Bret Easton Ellis

These trans are driven, I thought, like the mind, by electric current, and at once I was imagining all the pylons and the wires running down the valley, creating a path, a network, that was separate from the landscape so that we could pass through it at great speed, as thoughts also hurtle by so fast but are rarely in contact with reality. The mind likes to move on rails, I decided after a couple of days in Maroggia, always the same old reflections and anxieties and obsessions, one leading to the other with great predictability. The same switches, the same buffers and terminuses that you never get beyond. — Tim Parks

During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays. — James Cronin

It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military. — Henry Rollins