Minh Nhật > Minh's Quotes

“Tất cả mọi thứ, kể cả có vẻ tầm phào, một ngày nào đó cũng có thể trở nên hữu ích. Điều quan trọng là biết được điều mà người khác không biết là bạn biết.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“... Đứa trẻ nhỏ tuổi nhất trong bất kỳ gia đình nào cũng luôn thích đùa, vì nói đùa là cách duy nhất để nó có thể tham gia câu chuyện của người lớn…”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Without training, they lacked knowledge.
Without knowledge, they lacked confidence.
Without confidence, they lacked victory.”
― Julius Caesar

“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
― Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

“The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
― Heinrich Heine

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”
― Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy

“Bring forward what is true. Write it so that it is clear. Defend it to your last breath.”
― Ludwig Boltzmann

“Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.”
― W.V. Quine

“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Tôi rất yêu mấy người cộng sản, bởi họ vừa đấu tranh chống toàn cầu hóa vừa hát Quốc tế ca”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, L'Égoïste romantique

“Social action must be animated by a vision of a future society, and by explicit judgments of value concerning the character of this future society.”
― Noam Chomsky, Chomsky On Anarchism

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Nếu bạn chỉ đọc những quyển sách mà mọi người đang đọc thì bạn cũng chỉ nghĩ những gì mọi người đang nghĩ.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
― Michel Foucault

“There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.”
― Louis Althusser

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“You don’t send messages because you have objects, you have objects because you send messages.”
― Sandi Metz, Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer