#mati

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#ethics #nietzsche #ethics

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information. ↗

— Idries Shah

#optimism #pessimism #pessimism

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. ↗

— Mark Twain

#clever #exclamation-point #writing #writing-advice

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

#biographer #constructions #dramatic #lives #none

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician. ↗

— Andy Richter

#born #brain #jazz #jazz musician #magical

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #exhumation #hugo-chavez #kim-il-sung #kim-jong-il

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#code #eliminate #information #tax #tax code

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ↗

— Mark Twain

#comes #information #interesting #know #most

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#diplomat #diplomatic #early #father #learn