Browse Quotes

618 quotes in the collection

• We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

  Anaïs Nin

• We are at a time where the problems of the world just can’t be answered by the prevailing imaginary. We are at a time of breakdown.

  Sylvia Earle

• The climate and ecological crisis cannot be solved within today’s systems. There are no tools, no laws nor regulations that keep us from destroying the living conditions for life on this planet as we know it. In order to solve this crisis we need…

  Greta Thunberg

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

• You only need to know the direction, not the destination. The direction is enough to make the next choice.

  James Clear

• Creeping normality (also called gradualism, landscape amnesia, shifting baselines) is a process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens slowly through small, often unnoticeable, increments of change. The change…

  Wikipedia

• If you’re overthinking, write. If you’re under-thinking, read.

  Mike Crittenden

• Happiness is found only in little moments of inattention.

  João Guimarães Rosa

• I don’t know what the future will be, but I absolutely know that things that give us joy in this world, especially the natural world, are essential for everything.

  Dara McAnulty

• A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

  James Freeman Clarke

• The mark of an educated man is the ability to entertain a thought without necessarily accepting it.

  Aristotle

• No brain, never mind.

  Christof Koch

• There is no Moore’s Law for human intelligence.

  Samuel Loncar

• But consider, guard down, this question: what is easier than not knowing? What is easier than believing what the authority says? And why do so many read Margaret Atwood novels if somehow, somewhere, many of us don’t believe something like this has…

  Samuel Loncar

• Ultimately, clocks will study the union of general relativity and quantum mechanics once they become sensitive to the finite wave function of quantum objects oscillating in curved spacetime.

  Tobias Bothwell, et. al.

• Face, accept, float, let time pass.

  Claire Weekes

• What I really need is to be clear about what I am to do, not what I must know.

  Søren Kierkegaard

• Hope is the necessary, but insufficient, precondition for survival. As we grope our way up the hill, we will meet with many dead ends that cause us to descend a ways to see if another approach will take us to a higher peak hill-climbing only gets…

  Cory Doctorow

• What evidence would you need to see to change your mind? The honest answer to this question is usually: I need a new story that’s more immediate, more vivid and most of all, more culturally aligned than the one I have now. It took humans 100,000…

  Seth Godin

• Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

  Hāfiz (10th century Persian Poet)