Aaron > Aaron's Quotes

“This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.”
― Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”
― Arthur Koestler, Drinkers of Infinity: Essays 1955-1967

“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”
― Arthur Koestler

“When you're dodging, you're "afraid of getting hit." When you're attacking, you're "afraid of hitting me." When you're protecting someone, you're "afraid of them dying."

It's pathetic! You can't give into fear in a fight!

When you're dodging, think "I won't let you hit me!" When you're protecting someone, think "I won't let you die!" When you're attacking, think "I will cut you!"
--Urahara Kisuke”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 11

“We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful
Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge
Unable to step out into the sky
Like that fearless flower
--Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice”
― Tite Kubo

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: 'Hey, whatcha readin' for?' Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well . . . hmmm...I dunno...I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.”
― Bill Hicks

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin

“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”
― George Carlin

“I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.”
― George Carlin

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
― George Carlin

“You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos”
― george carlin

“Bullshit is truly the American soundtrack.”
― George Carlin

“What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on? ”
― George Carlin

“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”
― George Carlin

“It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.”
― George Carlin

“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
― Bruce Lee

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
― Bruce Lee

“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.”
― Virginia Frances Schwartz, 4 Kids in 5-E and One Crazy Year

“Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much.”
― Clint Eastwood