“One martini is just right. Two martinis are too many. Three martinis are never enough.” Quote by M. F. K. Fisher
“The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven, then condensed to monotheism and finally it dies in irony.” FirstsHumansMovingDiesHeavenSacredIronyHuntersMonotheism Author:Lierre Keith
“In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.” IfsPersonsCultureGood LifeExcessEccentricAvariceSubversive Author:Bill Watterson
“Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.” PeopleValuesNumbersIncreasePossessingPublic Good Author:John Wilbanks
“The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends.” MenWorldWayChildrenIdeasEndsBodyLyingSufferingDiesBeliefRealizingBornPrayerSupportGoneSacrificeWorstProtectDestructionWitMonstersFrightened Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Information wants you to give me a dollar.” WantGivingInformationGive MeDollars Author:Bruce Sterling
“People can be taught to hate. And people can be taught to spell. But apparently, it's one or the other.” PeopleHateTaughtSpells Author:Caprice Crane
“Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.” MenNeedsIndependenceLongingDescriptionDependence Author:Blaise Pascal