Yohanan Petrovsky Shtern Quotes & Sayings

The karmic philosophy appeals to me on a metaphorical level because even in ones lifetime it's obvious how often we must repeat our same mistakes, banging our heads against the same ole addictions and compulsions, generating the same old miserable and often catastrophic consequences, until we can finally stop and fix it. This is the supreme lesson of karma ( and also of western psychology, by the way)- take care of the problem now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you screw everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering-that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understanding-there's where you'll find heaven. — Elizabeth Gilbert

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort. — Jack Kilby

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time. — Thomas J. Watson

The less you think, the more you believe. — Richard Dawkins

An obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more. — Mark Barrowcliffe

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue. — John Dos Passos

A new music is a new mind. — William Carlos Williams

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man. — Robert Mugabe

Amy is one of my favorite people in the fashion industry. She's smart, stylish and simply not a dick. — Grace Helbig

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing. — Billy Idol

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. — Euripides

All things keep on in everlasting motion,
Out of the infinite come the particles,
Speeding above, below, in endless dance. — Lucretius

Grace is the essence of theology and gratitude is the essence of ethics. — G. C. Berkouwer