“No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!”— Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello, Stefano Bises, Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, John Malkovich, imdb.com
“I am following that shadowy voice inside, this much I know for sure.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“The whole idea of a risk factor doesn’t make any sense to me. Risk comes from not knowing you’re doing.”— Warren Buffett, amazon.com
“I am willing to acknowledge other points of view...while making clear that they're wrong.”— Roxane Gay, youtube.com
“I try to analyze a real situation in its various complexities, with the goal of allowing refusal, and curiosity, and innovation.”— Michel Foucault, michaelbess.org
“It’s not important to be significant. It’s important to follow those kinds of questions that are grabbing you.”— Hubert Dreyfus, full-tilt.blogspot.com
“I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“I have always thought, none of our research matters unless it is generalizable, unless we can learn something from it that has implications beyond its own time.”— Caroline Levine, amazon.com
“Just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky— so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in,…”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“It’s very easy for a writer to be unrealistic. I have not lost my interest in politics, but I have come to realize that, in cases of social or political injustice, only two things are effective: political action and straight journalistic reportage of the facts. The arts can do nothing. The social an…”— W. H. Auden, theparisreview.org
“We had never stopped asking this question previously, and we already had the answer, which has not changed: philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“Let us hope the time will come when language is most efficiently used where it is being most efficiently misused. As we cannot eliminate language all at once, we should at least leave nothing undone that might contribute to its falling into disrepute. To bore one hole after another in it, until what…”— David Shields, amazon.com
“Poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Freedom does not lie in discovering or being able to determine who we are, but in rebelling against those ways in which we are already defined, categorized, and classified.”— John Rajchman, amazon.com
“I write with both reckless optimism and reckless despair. I believe that Progress and Doom are two sides of the same medal.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“I see the only possibility of a salvation in preparing a readiness, in thinking and poetizing, for the appearance of the God or for the absence of God in the case of decline; that we not, to put it coarsely, ‘come to a wretched end,’ but rather if we decline, we decline in the face of the absent God…”— Martin Heidegger, ditext.com