“Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.” MenHardDiesWinningBornGrowingTreeExpressionWeaknessWeakGreat ThingsDryCompanionFlexibleFreshnessHardenedInsensitiveHardness Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.” ThinkingBelieveLooksReasonFactsPastBeautifulReligiousChanceDesignMonthsTestsIntelligentComplexesBelieve In GodProfessorsFossilsIntricateCreationismIntelligent Design Author:Stewart Lee
“Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.” PersonsStatesUnitedExistenceUnited StatesIntelligentIronyIronicIntelligent Person Author:Marc Maron
“If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingYearsWould BeKidsPayBreakFourTaxesMarriedPaidRewardsExtrasApartmentTangibleMortgageHybridTax BreaksPaid Off Author:Bill Burr
“The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.” MenGovernmentLawProtectJokesDirtyConstructionSiteDirty JokesRaftersProtect WomenConstruction Sites Author:Warren Farrell
“I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.” ThinkingWayHumansTwoWarSelfHardIndividualViewsGenerationsHuman NatureBearsLessonsEmpowermentEmbraceInstinctNotionAttractionCollectivesSwingsLockedPreservationAnnihilationSelf PreservationErosHard WayEnticingThanatos Author:Chris Hedges
“If you had a jetpack you'd be like I have the shittiest jetpack. Who's your service provider on your jetpack? Did they make the new one? I hate this thing.” IfsHateI HateProvidersService Providers Author:Louis C. K.
“Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?” AudienceJokesFeministNatural Enemies Author:Louis C. K.
“There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantFeelsTryingFeelingsKnowingMovementIntellectualBlameHanging OutNot KnowingColleagues Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“There's a thing about trying too hard, which I think is in all forms, which is if you really try to do things really well, you can get to a less good place than if you just let go and let it fly. Especially in creativity.” IfsThinkingTryingWellsHardFormCreativityLetting GoGood PlaceJust Let GoTrying Too Hard Author:Eddie Izzard