Harmanas Chopra > Harmanas's Quotes

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“He could be working at Burger King, spittin' on your onion rings. Or in the parkin' lot, circling, screaming, "I don't give a fuck!" With his windows down and his system up”
― Eminem

“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”
― Oliver Cromwell.

“The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.”
― Charles Johnson, Middle Passage

“The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”
― Bertrand Russell

“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.”
― Thomas Browne

“Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe”
― Lex Luthor

“Who sees the many and not the one, wanders on from death to death.
Even by the mind this truth is to be learned: there are not many but only one. Who sees variety and not the unity wanders on from death to death.”
― Upanishad

“The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“All actors, all actresses, all great showmen, all carnivals, circuses — hell must be from end to end a tremendous rejoicing. But I don’t want to choose, I want them to mix. I want only one place where saints can become again alive, can start breathing, can start dancing, can start loving, can become spiritual playboys.”
― Osho

“In a way, man is all.”
― Thomas Aquinas