“Morton came up out of the depths of his chair. ‘And what about this basic human characteristic, of which religion is merely an outward expression ?’
The stranger made a gesture. ‘Silkey, exhibiting freaks, was really exhibiting himself. Religion is self-dramatization before a god. Self-love, narcissism — in our own little way we show ourselves off . . . and so a strange being could come into our midst unsuspected.”
Source: The Far-Out Worlds of A. E. van Vogt
“Even in the most structured, technological lives, our primal instincts are waiting to be reawakened.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity: A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Rest is revolutionary—it defies the pressure to always be ‘on’ and reminds us that we’re human, not machines.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity: A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Njegov je otac Ivo Lisica došao u Beč kao mlad zanatlija pa je tu radom i trudom, svojstvenom Hrvatima samo kad su u dijaspori, stvorio uspješan obrt, promijenio ime u Johann Fuchs, bez želje da se ikad vrati u naš tvrd i nezahvalan kraj, pa se tako i on Josef, rodio kao Fuchs, a ne kao Lisica, iako je to zapravo jedno te isto jer lisica ime mijenja, ali rep nikada, govorio je njegov ćaća Johann rođeni Ivo.”
Source: Mladenka kostonoga
“Fancy blundering in this way, not as an individual, not as a people, but as a whole species! as humanity!”
Source: Ecce Homo
“Dynasty & Democracy Don’t Go Together‼️”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“A story with a problem is like a person with a problem: interesting.”
Source: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“I’m born an ape, but I won’t die an ape, I’ll die the most spectacular human that ever lived – blasphemously tolerant, immeasurably expansive, impractically unbending, impossibly inclusive.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“God gave man a brain and a penis, but not enough blood to run both at the same time.”
“If one of the miseries of being human is that happiness can be snatched away at any moment, one of the joys is that it may be restored equally unexpectedly.”