Posts tagged 'Quote'

"I don’t like overrefinement, or to dwell in the heads of vaporous ladies with fine sensibilities."

— Two-time Booker Prize-winning novelist, Hilary Mantel. 

(Source: The New York Times)

"We are all furies, except the ones who are too damned foolish."

— Nora, the angry heroine of Claire Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs.

"Minimalism is a nicer way to say you have nothing."

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"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies."

— Stephen Hawking

"The lack of emergency is the greatest where self-certainty has become unsurpassable, where everything is held to be calculable and, above all, where it is decided, without a preceding question, who we are and what we are to do."

— Martin Heidegger, quoted in the context of modern living in a world where technology has usurped human freedom to think for themselves.