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"And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."
— William Shakespeare

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"You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things."
— Scott Westerfeld

tags: extras
23 people liked it

"When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil."
— Laozi (The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism / Includes "The Gatekeeper's Tale")

tags: beauty, evil
6 people liked it

"One faces the future with one's past."
— Pearl S.Buck

tags: specials
3 people liked it

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless."
— John Ruskin

tags: pretties
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"The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: pretties
4 people liked it

"What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful."
— Scott Westerfeld

tags: beauty, david, uglies, westerfeld
262 people liked it

"You see, freedom has a way of destroying things."
— Scott Westerfeld (Extras)

tags: destruction, freedom
159 people liked it

"I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know.
You know?"
— Robin Wasserman

tags: skinned
5 people liked it

"I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to."
— Robin Wasserman

tags: sci-fi
2 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,733 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,002 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,461 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
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"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
— Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: confidence, eccentricity, philosophy
553 people liked it

"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy
516 people liked it

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
— Malcolm X (By Any Means Necessary)

tags: philosophy, politics
424 people liked it

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
358 people liked it

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: philosophy, poetry
334 people liked it

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
— Laozi (Tao Teh Ching)

tags: philosophy, wayfinding
208 people liked it

"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."
— Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth)

tags: philosophy
140 people liked it

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

tags: morality, philosophy
180 people liked it

"You know, solving other peoples' problems is easy. The only person I can't seem to figure out is myself"
— Thomas James Higgins

tags: humor, philosophy
153 people liked it

"If you ride both sides of the fence, all you're gonna get is a wedgie."
— a great PHILosopher

tags: humor, philosophy
126 people liked it

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
— Stephen W. Hawking (A Brief History of Time)

tags: philosophy, science
102 people liked it

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
— Carl Sagan

tags: humor, philosophy
121 people liked it

"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: banks, destruction, federal, financial, loans, money, philosophy, political, politics, power, science, society, violence, war
130 people liked it

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."
— Benjamin Spock

tags: philosophy
87 people liked it

"I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle."
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

tags: galt, objectivism, philosophy, taggart
130 people liked it

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: fantasy, literature, philosophy
147 people liked it

"Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up."
— Neal Shusterman (Unwind)

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"Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it."
— Neal Shusterman (Unwind)

24 people liked it

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
— Albert Einstein

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"'Do I dazzle you?'

'Frequently.'"
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: vamps-dont-sparkle
1,898 people liked it

"'You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers.'"
— James Patterson (School's Out - Forever)

tags: sci-fi
154 people liked it

"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension."
— Steven Wright

tags: humor, sci-fi, sf
32 people liked it

"Those who deal in magic learn to see the world in a slightly differnt light than everybody else.you gain a perspective you had considered before. A way of thinking that would never have occurred to you with out exposure to the things a wizard sees and hears.When you look in to some ones eyes you see them in that other light and for just a second they see you in the same way. "
— Jim Butcher

tags: sci-fi
11 people liked it

"People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence."
— Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass)

tags: fantasy, philosophy, sci-fi
22 people liked it

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."
— Susan Sontag

tags: books, disaster, fi, fiction, literature, reading, sci, sci-fi, science
11 people liked it

""So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy with them, not if they're just gonna keep at it, not if they're not gonna learn to relax a little. I mean it's just gonna be continual nervous time, isn't it, right? Pow, pow, pow, when are they next coming at us? Peaceful coexistence is just right out, right? Get me some water somebody, thank you."

He sat back and sipped reflectively.

"OK," he said, "hear me, hear me. It's, like, these guys, you know, are entitled to their own view of the Universe. And according to their view, which the Universe forced on them, right, they did right. Sounds crazy, but I think you'll agree. They believe in ..."

He consulted a piece of paper which he found in the back pocket of his Judicial jeans.

"They believe in `peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life, and the obliteration of all other life forms'.""
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase)

tags: adams, douglas, fi, irony, sci, sci-fi
9 people liked it

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett (A Hat Full of Sky)

tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
73 people liked it

"Reality is what won't go away when you stop believing in it."
— Philip K. Dick

tags: dick, k-, phillip, sci-fi
7 people liked it

"The signs shifted in my mind like a kaleidoscope of visions."
— Kelly Parra (Invisible Touch)

tags: sci-fi, visions
4 people liked it

"You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history"
— Iain M. Banks

tags: history, reading, sci-fi
8 people liked it

"Isabella Swan: Are you going to tell me how you stopped the van?
Edward Cullen: Yeah. Um... I had an adrenaline rush. It's very common. You can Google it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: adrenaline, twilight, van
748 people liked it

"maturity is only the control of one's imagination."
— Sidney Greenslate

tags: bella, control, create, cute, edward, funny, humor, imagination, inspirational, maturity, sexy, twilight
122 people liked it

"I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 1, p.17"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: humour
98 people liked it

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