John M > John's Quotes

“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.”
― Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
― Martin Buber

“We make an idol of truth itself, for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and an idol that we must not love or worship.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
― George Orwell

“That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking.”
― Nietzsche