a few quotations I (really) like
Solo la luce che uno accende a se stesso, risplende in seguito anche per gli
altri.
Arthur Schopenhauer, da “Parerga e Paralipomena"
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is
violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer
This box is full of stuff that almost killed me.
And what about this one? Where's this one from, Will?
It's my wedding ring. Like I said, stuff that almost killed me.
From the "Hurt Locker" script
Nonne nobis visum est nullam naturam esse quae non in his tribus terminis
intelligitur subsistere, qui a Graecis ut saepe diximus, “ousia, dinamia,
energia” appellantur: hoc est essentia, virtus, operatio.
Scoto Eriugena
Robots are not bright enough to be called stupid
Photography and art are all about discovering what excites you, and showing it
to us as you see it.
Ken Rockwell
I thought of the future but I spoke of the past.
Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany)
L'assurdo ci sfida per spingerci a essere fieri di noi
Francesco Guccini
Science may set limits to knowledge,
but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
I am what I have around
Theoria,
Wallace Stevens
Algernon. The doctors found
out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean — so Bunbury died.
Lady Bracknell.
He seems to have had great confidence in
the opinion of his physicians.
from
"The Importance
of being Ernest", Oscar Wilde
Just like everything in life,
if something isn't adding to the composition,
it's taking away.
Ken
Rockwell
Algernon. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?
Lane. I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.
Almost nothing fundamental has been developed by large corporations, or even by people working at their day jobs. All large organizations do is bring other people's brilliant ideas to market, but the brilliant ideas always start in the imagination of a single man.
Almost everything earth-shaking has
been developed by individuals working in their garage on their own time.
Ken Rockwell
Lane. I
believe it IS a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of
it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in
consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person
from
"The Importance
of being Ernest", Oscar Wilde
Das Talent gleicht dem Schützen, der ein Ziel trifft, welches die übrigen nicht
erreichen können; das Genie dem, der eins trifft, bis zu welchem sie nicht
einmal zu sehen vermögen.
Arthur Schopenahuer, Welt als Wille und Vorstellung II, 3
E' il giorno in cui ti copri che cominci ad avere freddo
La differenza tra chi è innamorato e chi non lo è, è che l'innamorato mente a se stesso; per questo motivo è più convincente