Philosophy
Quotes - Fantasy is Escapist, and that is its Glory
“Simplicity,
patience, compassion.
These
three are your greatest treasures.
Simple
in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient
with both friends and enemies,
you
accord with the way things are.
Compassionate
toward yourself,
you
reconcile all beings in the world.”
―
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Fantasy
is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy,
don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind
and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape,
and to take as many people with us as we can!”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Without
deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
―
Frank Zappa
“Trust
yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
―
Benjamin Spock
“Do
not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once
eccentric.”
―
Bertrand Russell
“The
most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental
emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
―
Albert Einstein, The World As I See It
“There
may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.”
―
Elie Wiesel
“Think
left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think
up if only you try!”
―
Dr. Seuss
“A
woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
―
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“I
was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the
inexhaustible variety of life.”
―
Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
“We
are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.”
―
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
“When
we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You're
not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong,
no matter who does it or says it.”
―
Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary (Malcolm X Speeches and Writings)
“If
you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo
Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
“Time
is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
―
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“The
past has no power over the present moment.”
―
Eckhart Tolle
“The
reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.”
―
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“I
cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
―
Socrates
“A
truth that's told with bad intent
Beats
all the lies you can invent.”
―
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“Maybe
everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
―
Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
