V for Vendetta speech
Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot,… 😀
Never apologize for being correct
“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” ~ Gandhi
The knack of flying
“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” – Douglas Adams
Experience does not err
“La esperienza non falla, ma sol fallano i nostri giudizi, mettendoci di lei cose che non sono in sua potestà”
(Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power) – Leonardo da Vinci
Death rules
“In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.”
Dag Hammarskjold
Transcending forms
“In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life” – Rabindranath Tagore
Sentence genius
“To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Authority
“Chi disputa allegando l’alturità non adopera lo ‘ngegno, ma più tosto la memoria”
(anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory) – Leonardo Da Vinci
So-called good
“A so-called good to which we surrender loses its ethical value. Not that there is anything bad to it on that score, but to have succumbed to it may breed trouble. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” – Carl Gustav Jung
