Vasistas Quotes & Sayings

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer's saying, 'A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,' has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life's hardships, my own and others', and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due. — Albert Einstein

Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. — Anne Carson

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents? — Lois Lowry

There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know. — Mongkut

The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating. — Iain Sinclair

It isn't about winning a game, it about fixing what's broken. — Bob Harper

A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time. — Grenville Kleiser

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. — Yann Martel