John > John's Quotes

“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.”
― Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It

“Life is a battleground. It always has been, and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.”
― C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

“This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder