Theoretisch Proefexamen Quotes & Sayings

Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith. — William S. Burroughs

Life goes on much the same. In the face of terrifying dangers and golden political opportunities, people just keep-on keeping-on in a sort of twilight sleep in which they're conscious of nothing but the daily-round of work, family life, darts at the pub, exercising the dog, bringing home the supper, beer, etc, etc — George Orwell

Why must we be left, the survivors picking among the flotsam, among the small, unnoticed, unvalued clutter that was all that remained when they vanished, that only catastrophe made notable? — Marilynne Robinson

You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out. — Francoise Mouly

Live for the gifts the fragrant-breasted Muses
send, for the clear, the singing, lyre, my children.
Old age freezes my body, once so lithe,
rinses the darkness from my hair, now white.
My heart's heavy, my knees no longer keep me
up through the dance they used to prance like fawns in.
Oh, I grumble about it, but for what?
Nothing can stop a person's growing old.
They say that Tithonus was swept away
in Dawn's passionate, rose-flushed arms to live
forever, but he lost his looks, his youth,
failing husband of an immortal bride. — Sappho

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude, — Daniel Dennett

Sir, I can use profanity in more than a thousand languages, some having curses that will addle an egg at a hundred paces. — Robert A. Heinlein

Praying is a prevailing force. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. — Meg Rosoff

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot. — Mark Haddon

[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established ... are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering. — Thomas Jefferson

God created me to delight people with my goals. — Romario

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy. — Anthony Marais