Vaders Sterven Quotes & Sayings

A system of morality tells us what to do and what not to do, but it cannot tell us what we should feel. Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. — Alice Miller

Nobody said anything that time. Or maybe I just wasn't listening. After all, someone had to keep an eye on the fridge. — Karen Chance

Somethingism is better than nihilism. — Anthony Marais

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me. — Geena Davis

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false. — Geoffrey Barraclough

But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind makes acceptable this adjustment of my body, I have no intention of ceasing to be a stone. Why? Because I like it. So then I too am slave to a passion, which advises me against wanting freely its opposite. However, willing, I could will. And yet I do not. How much freer am I than a stone? — Umberto Eco

If you see you're going to get popped in a fair fight, don't fight fair. — Brock Cole

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate. — Tobe Hooper

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories. — Garrison Keillor

The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal. — Ayn Rand

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. — William James