aphorisms & quotes & statements
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“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray -
“We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.”
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And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, you men of little faith?- Matthew 6:28-30“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds! ... - Luke 12:22-31 -
a Highlander saying by Father Jozef Tischner that „istnieją trzy rodzaje prowdy: świento prowda, tyz prowda i gówno prowda”
an article attempting to explain the meaning of these six words: https://przekroj.org/swiat-ludzie/trzy-prawdy-tischnera/ -
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul ValeryBreath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.
Paul ValeryNothing beautiful can be summarized.
Paul ValeryOur most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
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"We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong."
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@nuvolor said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:
We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.
It looks like an antinomy.
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Thank you for your beautiful aphorisms & quotes here.
I hope you've already created your own blog here on Vivaldi.
To avoid any misunderstandings, of course I don't mean this ironically, but seriously.
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@ingolftopf
It is a joy and a pleasure for me,
Thanks to all those like you who work hard to make this and much more possible in the Vivaldi ecosystem. -
"Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate.
We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another."
(Desmond Tutu) -
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You can kiss a nun once; you can kiss a nun twice; but don’t get into the habit.
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"If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent."
(Alan Turing) -
Maszyna tępa, niezdolna do refleksji, robi to, co jej zadać. Bystra pierwej bada, co się jej lepiej kalkuluje — rozwiązać otrzymane zadanie czy też wykręcić się sianem?
Stanisław Lem: „Kongres futurologiczny. Opowiadania Ijona Tichego” -
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
(Oscar Wilde) -
Stanisław Lem - Mathematics about love
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O, nie dożył rozkoszy, kto tak bez siwizny
Ani w przestrzeni Weyla, ani Brouwera
Studium topologiczne uściskiem otwiera,
Badając Moebiusowi nieznane krzywizny!
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"We think too much and feel too little."
(Charlie Chaplin) -
I said in What are you listening to right now?:
Trzy Prawa Lema powiadają, że:
Nikt nic nie czyta;
Jeśli ktoś coś czyta, to nic nie rozumie;
Jeśli ktoś coś czyta i rozumie, to natychmiast zapomina.
Stanisław Lem, Sława i fortuna. Listy Stanisława Lema do Michaela Kandla 1972-1987 -
“When you realize that in order to produce you need authorization from someone who produces nothing, you know that your society is doomed.”
Ayn Rand
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“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
John Rogers
