- “It’s always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts the reality of the ghost. Never questions his own madness might not in fact be unfeigned.” ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
- “الكتب كالبشر .. قليل منها يلعب دورا عظيما” ― فولتير
- “Nothing is sweeter than being unapologetically you. Don’t live your life just to impress others. Reveal your truth, Express your love, Live your dreams.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
- “The ultimate technology is the leveraging of mind: the fountainhead of the world; the origin of all logic and physics. If only we could learn to gain mastery of our own mind, conscious and unconscious, unfathomable new possibilities would open up before us.” ― Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us about the Nature of Reality
- “Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?” ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
- “The role of a writer is to shed light on major issues, to speak the unspoken, and make others see the unseen, feel the unfelt, and hear the unheard.” ― Mireille Saba Redford
- “Notice the small letter “a”. The typed “a” is different from what you write with pen on paper. This difference doesn’t bother you at all. Mind can adapt to anything. It can even learn to read ‘cow’ as ‘elephant’.” ― Shunya
- “Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.” ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
- “When we are active, we become stronger and more energetic. This, in turn, makes us more positive and self-confident. It’s a powerful cycle.” ― Ernest Cadorin, The Arrows of Zen
- “Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.” ― Carl von Clausewitz
- “Sam Harris writes that “Most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.” There are no objective morals then. Sam Harris is skeptical of free will. If that view is taken, then all judiciary and penal laws shall cease to exist. But, do they or would they?” ― Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
- “Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.” ― Isaac Asimov
- “Simplicity and humility, not power or status, will bring you joy and happiness.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It’s the way I see football, the way I see life.” ― Bill Shankly, The Quotable Shankly
- “I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.” ― Elon Musk
- “For us man is characterized above all by his going beyond a situation, and by what he succeeds in making of what he has been made — even if he never recognizes himself in his objectification.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
- “The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation.” ― Germany Kent
- “Give yourself permission to walk away from those who belittle your ambitions and dreams, predict your doom, and constantly criticise you. Their projective reaction is nothing but a mere egoic reflection of their own emotions, perceptions, and experiences — which often occurs on the subconscious level, without them noticing. Reckon that it’s their story they are mirroring, not yours.” ― Omar Cherif
- “Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.” ― Margaret Fuller
- “What is the meaning of life? To live.” ― John Casey
- “Ontological mathematics is based on light. Light is eternal (it does not experience time and it does not experience space and is therefore indestructible); light is mental (it is massless and immaterial), light is absolute (it provides the absolute reference frame – the ether – for all spacetime reference frames). Light corresponds exactly to the immaterial, unextended mind posited by Descartes. Have you seen the light? Once you realize that light is nothing but sinusoidal waves, as per Euler’s Formula, you have the means to understand the whole of reality. Light is God. Light is the substance of an intelligent, living, thinking mathematical organism, calculating its own perfection. All of the great ancients understood this type of picture of reality. No modern scientist does.” ― Thomas Stark, What Is Mathematics?: The Greatest Detective Story Never Told
- “لو كنت شيعيا لأيدت المظاهرات.. ولو كنت سنيا لتوجست منها… لا أتمنى أن أكون سنيا في دولة شيعية.. ولا أن أكون شيعيا في الخليج.. لكني لا أخشى أن أكون بوذيا في بريطانيا..” ― مصطفى الحسن
- “I never attempt to take away people’s God from them, because that God is associated with a lot of human sentiments in the human psyche that act as fuel in daily survival. If you try to take away some hungry man’s stale bread, he would fight back, but if you give him something healthier and more substantial than the bread, then he would throw away the bread himself and accept your better food. The same is for God.” ― Abhijit Naskar, 7 Billion Gods: Humans Above All
- “To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.” ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
- “Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.” ― Rick Aster, Fear of Nothing
- “L’homme est libre au moment qu’il veut l’être.” ― Voltaire
- “The claim that I defend is that human culture started out profoundly Darwinian, with uncomprehending competences yielding various valuable structures in roughly the way termites build their castles, and then gradually de-Darwinized, becoming ever more efficient in its ways of searching Design Space. In short, as human culture evolved, it fed on the fruits of its own evolution, increasing its design powers by utilizing information in ever more powerful ways.” ― Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
- “The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of signifieds.” ― Jacques Derrida
- “Rocket-fueled rapt ambition; fate concedes to my volition. There is nothing I can’t take wherever there’s a win at stake.” ― John Casey, Raw Thoughts
- “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.” ― Aristotle