#ex

I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation of something as devastating as Western culture, which is now allowed to spread throughout the world, offers sufficient proof of this fact. ↗

— Pentti Linkola

#overpopulation #population #population-explosion #life

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existence #life #man #purpose #realization

Every man lives by exchanging. ↗

— Adam Smith

#exchange #how-life-works #trade #life

The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#champagne #lobster #picnics #life

If I knew everything, life would be lonely, as everyone else would want to explore the world, and I’d be content with a cat on my lap sitting in the dark. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#content #dark #explore #knowledge #lonely

I used to think I knew all the answers. Then I thought I knew maybe a few of the answers. Now I'm not even sure I understand the questions. Nobody knows anything. ↗

— Pete Nelson

#questions-and-answers #experience

When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#go #i #left #me #people

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#the-woman-who-died-a-lot #thursday-next #life

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#labor #life

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#importance #language #words #life