Truth
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“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”
Pain is a gift
/“Pain is a gift... It dominates attention for one purpose: to motivate behavior that will heal, repair and improve.”
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Net worth
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“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
Courage and action
/“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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Play the instrument
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“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”
Illusion and ignorance
/“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
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Smarts
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“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
The greatest teachers
/“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
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A scientific mind
/“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”
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Versions of history
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“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.”
Superpowers
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My friend: You should see the thunder and lightning, it's pretty impressive.
Me: It'd be pretty impressive if I saw thunder.
My friend: If you were an X-Man, your power would be being literal. Which is still better than mine, because mine would just be grammar.
I against I
/“The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves.”
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Broken dreams
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“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
Metamorphosis
/“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”
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The real deal
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“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.”
Perspective
/“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
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Want not want
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“Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don’t, you can’t want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It’s not the ‘it’ that you want, it’s the fantasy of ‘it.’ So, desire supports crazy fantasies. This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. Or why we say ‘the hunt is sweeter than the kill.’ Or ‘be careful what you wish for.’ Not because you’ll get it, but because you’re doomed not to want it once you do. So the lesson of Lacan is, living by your wants will never make you happy. What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals, and not to measure your life by what you’ve attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.”
Of towels and throwing
/“Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit, but it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”
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