The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.——Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (Polish-born British writer ): It is not necessary to attribute the occurrence of evil to supernatural factors. Human beings themselves are sufficient to carry out every evil deed.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.——Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett (famous absurd playwright): Try again, fail again, fail better.
Try not. Do or do not.——Yoda
Master Yoda (the protagonist in "Star Wars"): Don't try. To do or not to do.
All is riddle, and the key to a riddle ...is another riddle.——Emerson
Emerson (American poet, essayist, philosopher): all Things are mysteries, and the key to one mystery...is another.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.——Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill: The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see. Look farther and farther.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.——Nietzsche
Nietzsche: When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.
There are certain clues at a crime scene which, by their very nature, do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How does one collect love, rage, hatred, fear?——Dr. James T . Reese
Dr. James Reese (American expert in traumatic stress management): Some clues in crime scenes are not easy to collect and detect due to their own nature. How can one person collect love, anger, hatred and fear?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.—— Einstein
Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, but imagination surrounds the world.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.Try to be better than yourself.——William Faulkner
Williams Faulkner (American writer) : Don’t worry about being better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.——Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (British literary giant): Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. They all come from imitating those with whom we are unlikely to be the same.
Don't forget that I cannot see myself that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.——Jacques Rigaut
Jacques Rigaut (French poet): Farewell Forgetting that I cannot see myself, my role is limited to looking at the person in the mirror.
Birds sing after a storm.Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?——Rose Kennedy
Rose Kennedy (President Kennedy's mother) ): Birds sing after a storm, why don’t people feel happy while the sun is still shining?
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.——Euripides
Euripides (Greek tragic poet): When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. All good people will go through hardships with him.
When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.——Euripides
Euripides: Love too deeply, will lose all honor and worthiness.
The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against it's existence, rather, a condition of it.——Nietzsche
Nietzsche: The absurdity of a thing is not an argument against it's existence, rather, a condition of it. arguments. On the contrary, this is precisely the condition of its existence.
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.——Shakespeare
Shakespeare: Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.
With foxes, we must play the fox.——Dr. Thomas Fuller
Dr. Thomas Fuller: When we encounter foxes, we must learn to be cunning.
When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.——Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes: When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ——Sherlock Holmes
What is left, even if it is impossible, must be the truth.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man.And those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it never really care for anything else.——Hemingway
Hemingway: No where This kind of hunting is like human hunting. The armed hunters are always happy with it, but they never care about other things.
The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. - Carl Jung
Jung: The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. People who have been tortured become torturers.
A belief is not merely an idea that mind possesses. It is a thought that is controlled by the mind, and it is also a thought that can control the mind.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy--am I or the others crazy?——Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy--am I or the others crazy?——Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy--am I or the others crazy? Already?
Unfortunately a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.——Sir Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Ustinov (cultural celebrity, comedian Star, veteran British actor, playwright, performing artist, novelist, social activist, opera director): Unfortunately, the price of having many dreams is that there will also be more nightmares.
Ideologies separate us, dreams and anguish bring us together.——Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco (Romanian absurd playwright): Ideologies separate us, and anguish brings us together. Dreams and pain bring us together.