Utram bibis? Aquam an undam?
“Utram bibis? Aquam an undam?”
(What are you drinking? The water or the wave?)
John Fowles, The Magus
…we’re just monkeys wrapped in suits…
“We share an addiction. We’re approval junkies. …. Shine on you crazy diamond, because we’re just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others.”
Jake Green, Revolver (2005)
Madness as a divine gift
“In reality, our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, which indeed is a divine gift.”
Socrates (Plato, Phaedrus)
Japanese…
Well, it’s japanese and not chinese; btw, it’s absolutely funny.
Be careful, the jingle of ピタゴラスイッチ (Pitagora Suitchi) will stay in your head for days…:-)
Explore. Dream. Discover.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
War is the father of us all
“War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Does size matter?
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain
The object of life
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the masses, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Marcus Aurelius
The hardest thing in the world
“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
Ayn Rand
True?
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”
Janis Joplin, Me & Bobby McGee
