Category Archives: Quote of the Week
Quote of Whenever I Feel Like It: Life Imitating Art
“…who we are and how we relate to each other grows out of the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and about each other. In a very real sense, who I am is the way I’ve lived out my story … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: This is why I love Murakami
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel as if I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: On the Bright Side…
‘What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.’ –Seneca This is why I don’t turn to philosophy to cheer me up when I’m on one of my mood swings. This might … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: And Why Not?
“The world is a banquet, and you should not have only caviar or only twinkies. You should have caviar-filled twinkies.” – Guillermo del Toro
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Quote of the Week: A Fundamental Problem
“The thing we value most of all is youth, which means that life automatically becomes depressing, because life consists, on the whole, of getting old.” –Michel Houellebecq From this interview, which I found “charming throughout” (to channel Tyler Cowen). I … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: Herding the Flock
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician and ridiculous to the philosopher. –Lucretius
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Quote of the Week: I’ll Believe it When I See it
This is stolen from last week’s quote on Confessions of a Philosophy Junkie. Sorry, couldn’t resist. “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekhov
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Quote of the Week: An Old Tip, but it Works
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is’. –Kurt Vonnegut
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Quote of the Week: Time is an Extensible Metaphor
Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, … Continue reading
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Quote of the Week: The Best Way Out
The best way out is always through. –Robert Frost I know, I know. I have no discipline.
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