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“Agama bukan sekadar ritual dan tata cara. Ada makna di balik ritual dan tata cara itu.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Jika Bumi berhenti berputar, maka menurut hukum Newton benda apapun yang tak terikat ke Bumi bakal terus bergerak dengan kecepatan perputaran Bumi (1100 mil per jam atau 1770 km per jam di khatulistiwa)”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Scientists tend to risk theories they admire”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“[...] Traditionally these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“Lama-lama orang males romantis karena entar disebut galau.
Males peduli takut disebut kepo.
Males mendetail takut dibilang rempong.
Males mengubah-ubah point of view dalam debat takut dibilang labil.
Juga, lama-lama generasi mendatang males berpendapat takut dikira curhat.”
― Sujiwo Tejo, Dalang Galau Ngetwit

“Ini "Khotbah Minggu"-ku : Setiap Game Over dalam hidupmu perlu koin untuk berlanjut. Koin itu adalah jiwa pasrah.”
― Sujiwo Tejo, Dalang Galau Ngetwit

“Berkali-kali aku bilang, bangsa ini digoblokan dengan pendidikan matematika yang salah. Matematika cuma diajarkan sebagai hitung-hitungan. Bukan sebagai bahasa.”
― Sujiwo Tejo, Dalang Galau Ngetwit

“Ini "Khotbah Minggu"-ku : Cinta itu penjara dengan kerangkeng kasih sayang, maka kamu sering menangis tanpa merasa dibui.”
― Sujiwo Tejo, Dalang Galau Ngetwit

“is there anything more dangerous than a god who doesn't know what he wants?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Buku yang bisa ku baca berulang-ulang, dengan sudut pandang baru dan pengertian baru setiap kalinya.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Why? This world is rife with matters philosophy cannot explain.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

“Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

“A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another.”
― Karl Marx, Capital (Das Kapital): Enriched edition. Vol. 1-3: Complete Edition - Including The Communist Manifesto, Wage-Labour and Capital, & Wages, Price and Profit

“Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

“Om is the bow; the arrow is the soul, The Brahman is the arrow’s goal That one should continuously hit.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Whosoever immerses themselves in Atman through contemplation and a purified spirit Will receive ineffable blessing in their heart.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“With us, our Priests are Administrators of all Business, Art, and Science; Directors of Trade, Commerce, Generalship, Architecture, Engineering, Education, Statesmanship, Legislature, Morality, Theology; doing nothing themselves, they are the Causes of everything worth doing, that is done by others.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“Feeling is believing’ and ‘A Straight Line to the touch is worth a Circle to the sight’”—two Proverbs, very common with the Frailer Sex in Flatland.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“Thus ended my first attempt to convert a pupil to the Gospel of Three Dimensions.”
― Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

“My mother’s crime that morning was that she happened to be wearing trousers in public, not a skirt. This was prohibited, since the leadership had decreed that trousers were unbecoming of the Korean woman.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

“In North Korea, bribery is often the only way of making anything happen, or of circumventing a harsh law, or a piece of nonsense ideology.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

“The Yankee jackals care more about dogs than people. This is what the teachers in my kindergarten told me. They even dress them up in clothes. That’s because they are like dogs themselves.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

“Even the toys we played with were used for our ideological education. If I built a train out of building blocks, the teacher would tell me that I could drive it to South Korea to save the starving children there.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

“In theory the government provided for everyone’s needs – food, fuel, housing and clothing – through the Public Distribution System. The quality and the amount you received depended on the importance of your work.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

“Banners in the school corridors made our priorities clear: ‘Let us study for our country!’ and ‘Always be on the alert for Marshal Kim Il-sung!”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea

“Kindness toward strangers is rare in North Korea. There is risk in helping others. The irony was that by forcing us to be good citizens, the state made accusers and informers of us all.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story

“Kind people who put others before themselves would be the first to die. It was the ruthless and the selfish who would survive.”
― Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story