John > John's Quotes

“The more places you dig, the more chances you have at finding gold.”
― John Stack IV

“Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist," so said Pascal. In fact, its incomprehensibility validates its existence: For that which does not exist we can hardly give adjectives, like incomprehensible.”
― John Stack IV

“Pleasure vociferates more than Wisdom.”
― John Stack IV

“The difference between egoistic hedonism and altruistic hedonism is but an adjective.”
― John Stack IV

“Dangers can be faced but until done the suspense is unnerving; and that suspense, is what feeds and inflates our fears.”
― John Stack IV

“Being right, and being happy, are not always the same thing. How many times do we find ourselves right, and very upset about it?... just as many times as we find ourselves wrong, and very happy about that.”
― John Stack IV

“To be able to elicit emotion from a thing is to be able to control it.”
― John Stack IV

“We are silly creatures who are quite prejudiced against others since we do not have the same thoughts...or thought process, sometimes.
Can you imagine the look of pure madness in the man's eyes who first spotted a lobster scurrying about and thought to himself, "I want to put that in my mouth," or the look of sheer horror on the faces of those who witnessed the act?”
― John Stack IV

“It takes more energy to give a damn than to not give a damn.”
― John Stack IV

“The more places you dig, the more chances of finding gold.”
― John Stack IV

“The moment we go looking for anything outside of ourselves, i.e., when we make our happiness contingent on another, we have a serious problem. All of the emotions and feelings that we have come from within―we have those natural capacities ourselves. If we did not have an appetite to begin with, food would hold no appeal. It does not make us hungry; it merely stimulates that hunger inside of us. The same is true of all virtues and vices. Everything we need to gratify us can be found within, if only we venture to look and not pay heed to the bright and blinding lights that have enthralled most of this world.”
― John Stack IV

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
― Jean Genet

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“An open mouth is an invitation.”
― John Stack IV

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The First Lock may not be Time.
The First Lock may be the language through which humanity decided what Time was.”
― John Stack IV

“Before asking whether the answer is true, ask whether the words have remained the same long enough for an answer to exist.”
― John Stack IV