Tonetti Pirassununga Quotes & Sayings

If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Having escaped the Dark Ages in which animals were mere stimulus-response machines, we are free to contemplate their mental lives. It is a great leap forward, the one that Griffin fought for. But now that animal cognition is an increasingly popular topic, we are still facing the mindset that animal cognition can be only a poor substitute of what we humans have. It can't be truly deep and amazing. Toward the end of a long career, many a scholar cannot resist shining a light on human talents by listing all the things we are capable of and animals not. From the human perspective, these conjectures may make a satisfactory read, but for anyone interested, as I am, in the full spectrum of cognitions on our planet, they come across as a colossal waste of time. What a bizarre animal we are that the only question we can ask in relation to our place in nature is "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the smartest of them all? — Frans De Waal

My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable. — Parmenides

Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness. — John Calvin

Your customers are responsible for your company's reason for existing. — Marilyn Suttle

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it? — Charlie Watts

The reason that women do not love one another is - men. — Jean De La Bruyere

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up. — Cynthia Lewis

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. — Ralph G. Neas

It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news. — David Sedaris

You may lose again and again ... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only. — Khem Veasna