Treatises Singular Quotes & Sayings

If boredom is, as Heidegger argued, the awareness of time passing, then surgery felt like the opposite: the intense focus made the arms of the clock seem arbitrarily placed. Two hours could feel like a minute. — Paul Kalanithi

Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

I get scared because I regard women as the most beautiful creatures in the world. — Blake Lewis

Most of us are going through life without interrogating whether our decision-making processes are fit for purpose. And that's something we need to change - especially when the stakes are high and the decisions are of real import. — Noreena Hertz

When the wind blows,the grass bends. — Confucius

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible. — John Wesley

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it. — Jean Paul

There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data. — Nikola Tesla

Don't be a sucker all your life, dummy up, ya dope. — Jack Kerouac

These days you can't do a goddamn thing online without leaving footprints. — David Lagercrantz