QUOTIN'

• 2011-12-17

  When I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself, and take my fill of ambrosia.

  — Ptolemy

  Source: reddit.com

• 2011-11-28

  There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  — Isaac Asimov

  Source: daringfireball.net

• 2011-11-26

  What is the feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It’s the too huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

  — Jack Kerouac

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  There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

• 2011-09-12

  The trick is in one what emphasizes. We either make ourselves happy, or we make ourselves miserable. The amount of work is the same.

  — Carlos Castaneda

• 2011-08-01

  I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

  — Aristotle

• 2011-07-05

  It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, “whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,” and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.

  — John Adams

  Source: daringfireball.net

• 2010-06-30

  I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game, though, right?

  — Omar

• 2010-06-23

  In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.

  — Shunryo Suzuki-Roshi

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  They say I can’t teach because I have a bad attitude. You know what I say? Fuck my attitude!

  — Phil Pierard