David Jordan > David's Quotes

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“No tienes que hacer nada para caer bien o mal. O te acepta o te tira de lado.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“No hay nada malo en tener miedo. Cuando uno teme,ve las cosas en forma distinta.”
― Carlos Castañeda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity

“En la historia del mundo, nunca antes los no-lugares han ocupado tanto espacio”. Los”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Modernidad líquida

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Lo que hacen los libros es desgraciarlo al hombre, créalo. No conozco un solo hombre feliz que lea. Y tengo amigos de todas las edades. Todos los individuos de existencia más o menos complicada que he conocido habían leído. Leído, desgraciadamente, mucho.”
― Roberto Arlt, Aguafuertes porteñas

“Visibility is a trap.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“Traditionally, power was what was seen, what was shown, and what was manifested...Disciplinary power, on the other hand, is exercised through its invisibility; at the same time it imposes on those whom it subjects a principle of compulsory visibility. In discipline, it is the subjects who have to be seen. Their visibility assures the hold of the power that is exercised over them. It is this fact of being constantly seen, of being able always to be seen, that maintains the disciplined individual in his subjection. And the examination is the technique by which power, instead of emitting the signs of its potency, instead of imposing its mark on its subjects, holds them in a mechanism of objectification. In this space of domination, disciplinary power manifests its potency, essentially by arranging objects. The examination is, as it were, the ceremony of this objectification.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“Life moves on and so should we”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris

“What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'

'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.”
― Stanisław Lem, Solaris

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“The only good human being is a dead one.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.”
― Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033