Quotes – Page 3 – A Pondering Mind

“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. thatContinue reading “Redistribution Of Wealth”

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.” ~ Andy Rooney

Simplify Your Life

“Simplify your life. Don’t waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don’t burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don’t destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” ~Ernest Hemingway

“I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view.” ~Allen Ginsberg

“Our heads are round so thought can change direction” ~Allen Ginsberg

Time And Space

“Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.” ~ Edwin Way Teale, Naturalist ~ 1899 – 1980

“A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.” ~John Burroughs

Act Of Reading

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you’re just not conscious of the physical act of reading. ~ Frank Shorter

Dreaming

“It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.” ~ Rene Descartes, Philosopher ~ 1596 – 1650

“I know that I exist; the question is, What is this ‘I’ that ‘I’ know.” ~Rene Descartes

“How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?” ~Rene Descartes

“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” ~John Burroughs

Each Day

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” ~ John Burroughs

Do Silly Things

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” ~Anton Chekhov

“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fear Of Truth

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr

The Opposite Of

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” ~ Jack Kerouac*

*Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969

“I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.” ~ Jack Kerouac

Fear

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~Henry David Thoreau

“The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.” ~Immanuel Kant

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” ~Henry Rollins

A Good Friend

“A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” ~ Lois Wyse, Author ~ 1926 – 2007

“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Smiles And Laughter

“Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.” ~ Debbie Shapiro, Author ~ Born: 1953

“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.” ~Jonathan Franzen

Evil

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?” ~ Bret Easton Ellis, Novelist ~ Born: March 7, 1964

“Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future” ~ Thomas A. Edison

The People Of The United States

“The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ~ Aldous Huxley

“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” ~Aldous Huxley

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. ~Albert Camus

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” ~Anthony Burgess

“Invisible things are the only realities.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

To Be

“To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?” ~ George Berkeley

“Life’s like a mayonnaise soda.” ~Lou Reed

“All perception is a gamble.” ~Edmund Husserl

People Know What They Do

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.” ~ Michel Foucault, Philosopher – Born: October 15, 1926 – Died: June 25, 1984

“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.” ~Averroes

Averroes, Philosopher – Born: April 14, 1126-Died: December 10, 1198

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The body

“The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.” ~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Philosopher ~ 1908-1961

“All consciousness is consciousness of something” ~Edmund Husserl

We The People

Two People

“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.” ~ William James

Time is the most unknown of all unknown things. ~Aristotle

“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Reading A Novel

“Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist’s head, and you invest many hours to do so.” ~ Jay McInerney

“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” ~William Ralph Inge

Hard Work

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” ~ Stephen King

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” ~George Harrison

Wrong Planet

“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?” ~ George Harrison – Born: February 25, 1943 – Died: November 29, 2001

Being Here Now

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire

Materials Of Knowledge

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” ~ John Locke

“Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.” ~Paul Theroux

“Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.” ~Paul Auster

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” ~Tom Stoppard

“What worries you, masters you.” ~ John Locke

Back In Time

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” ~ Harvey Mackay

“To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.” ~ John Keats

“Life is a constant process of dying.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer

Majority Of Men

“The majority of men… are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and… are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher – 1788-1860

Suddenly Wake Up

“Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?” ~ Jack Kerouac

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~Jack Kerouac

“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.” ~Baruch Spinoza

Life Is One Big Road

“Life is one big road with lots of signs,So when you riding through the ruts,Don’t you complicate your mindFlee from hate, mischief and jealousyDon’t bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.” ~ Bob Marley

The Charming Gardeners

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. ~Carl Jung

To be is to be perceived. (Esse est percipi) ~Bishop ~George Berkeley

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” ~Thomas A. Edison

Sunsets

“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.” ~ John Lubbock, 1834-1913

“You know what they say about Chicago. If you don’t like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.” ~ Ralph Kiner

The Crazy Ones

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently – they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things…Continue reading “The Crazy Ones”