Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.
The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
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Christopher Brennan
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
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Isobelle Carmody
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
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Stephen King
More Quotes By Georg Simmel
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with...
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.
One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
