[thekeyboardisthenewtypewriter]

"Self indulgence is better than no indulgence at all."

― Tom Lehrer, (live, 1998)

[philosophybits]

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”

— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique

[onetwofeb]

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said.

But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

André Gide, Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, 1964

[philosophybits]

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”

— Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

[thehopefulquotes]

“I think we regular people may have forgotten a basic truth—we don’t really have the right to judge anyone else.”

— Kanae Minato

[thehopefulquotes]

“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself.”

— Adam Elenbaas

[petaltexturedskies]

Girls who are dreamy, girls who spend whole days lying down, girls who read whatever they come across, girls who are melancholy and bored.

Anton Chekhov, Verochka

[thekeyboardisthenewtypewriter]

"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!"

―Tom Lehrer

[thekeyboardisthenewtypewriter]

"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."

― Kenneth Williams

[thekeyboardisthenewtypewriter]

"There is no 'I' in team... There is a me if you jumble it up."

― Dr Gregory House, season 1 ep. 9 titled "DNR"

[philosophybits]

“It is hard to fight against anger, but harder still to fight against pleasure.”

— Heraclitus, in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

[downeydabs]

“An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (via philosophybits)

[thekeyboardisthenewtypewriter]

"But when the melancholy fit shall fall, sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, that fosters the droop-headed flowers all, and hides the green hill in an April shroud; then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose."

― John Keats, Ode to Melancholy

[thekeyboardisthenewtypewriter]

"I figured the old days, you know, you were better off because nowadays they're all specialists; everyone's becoming better and better at less and less! Then eventually someone's gonna be superb at nothing!"

― Kenneth Williams, on "Aspel and Co", 1987

[thekeyboardisthenewtypewriter]

A nice Youtube comment.

[thekeyboardisthenewtypewriter]

“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”

― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

[sentientdessert]

“Before leaving kindergarten, I wrote these notes in my notebook: ‘I really like to study.’ Often I wonder when it was that our schools forgot the true meaning of 'study,’ something which is now so often misunderstood by teachers and parents. Learning ought to be both stimulating and entertaining.”

— Tatsuya Egawa (translated from Japanese)