Vic's quotes

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,318 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,791 people liked it

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
— Edgar Allan Poe

tags: insanity, sanity
827 people liked it

"'there is no bad whiskey, there are only some whiskies that aren't as good as others'"
— Raymond Chandler

26 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
12,242 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,604 people liked it

"Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read."
— Frank Zappa (The Real Frank Zappa Book)

tags: humor, music, writing
117 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,712 people liked it

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,560 people liked it

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism
586 people liked it

"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
— Nick Hornby

tags: music
504 people liked it

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Gibson

89 people liked it

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."
— Albert Camus

tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers
95 people liked it

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
— Robert A. Heinlein

315 people liked it

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: malice, stupidity
345 people liked it

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, perspective, science
1,035 people liked it

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: freedom, morality, politics, wisdom
110 people liked it

"The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal."
— Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)

tags: guitar, music
7 people liked it

"I would prefer not to."
— Herman Melville (Bartleby The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street)

18 people liked it

"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
— Philip K. Dick

tags: insanity, madness, pkd, reality
975 people liked it

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. "
— Philip K. Dick

tags: pkd
146 people liked it

"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give."
— Philip K. Dick

74 people liked it

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
— Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work
55 people liked it

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
— Gustave Flaubert

21 people liked it

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life
204 people liked it

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: fact, ignorance, truth
1,203 people liked it

"I am I, and I wish I weren't."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

20 people liked it

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: life, philosophy
3,724 people liked it

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. "
— Umberto Eco

38 people liked it

"I felt like poisoning a monk."
— Umberto Eco, on why he wrote "The Name of The Rose"

4 people liked it

"That day, I began to be incredulous. Or, rather, I regretted having been credulous. I regretted having allowed myself to be borne away by a passion of the mind. Such is credulity. "
— Eco, Umberto

3 people liked it

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. "
— Augusten Burroughs (Magical Thinking: True Stories)

473 people liked it

"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
— T.S. Eliot

30 people liked it

"Madness, and then illumination."
— Orson Scott Card (Xenocide)

tags: fiction, science
43 people liked it

"All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe."
— Orson Scott Card

25 people liked it

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. "
— Orson Scott Card

tags: words
15 people liked it

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: puritanism
25 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,252 people liked it