Quotes of the Month; December 2024
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
~ Bertrand ‘Arthur William’ Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; british mathematician, philosopher and logician.
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
~ Bertrand ‘Arthur William’ Russell, 3rd Earl Russell; british mathematician, philosopher and logician.
“You become political when you can no longer endure the world.”
~Marguerite ‘Germaine Marie Donnadieu’ Duras; french novelist, playwright and experimental filmmaker.
“People do not see you. They invent and accuse you.”
~ Helene ‘Hine’ Cixous; french writer, playwright and literary critic.
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
~Thomas ‘Kennerly’ “Tom” Wolfe Jr.; american author, social critic and journalist.
“Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive.
It becomes a habit after you realize how peaceful and calm it is.
It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore
because they drain your energy.”
~James ‘Eugene’ “Jim” Carrey; canadian-american comedian, actor and painter.
“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”
~Hermann ‘Karl’ Hesse; german-swiss poet, novelist and painter.
“The soul is the ancestral animals. The body is their knowledge.”
~Austin Osman Spare; british artist, author and occultist.
“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
~’Laura’ Jane Addams; american activist, sociologist and author.
“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
~ Herbert George “H.G.” Wells; british author and so-called “father of science fiction”.
“Dandyism is an aesthetic form of nihilism.”
~Jean Baudrillard; french sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist.