“You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.” LyingDesireChoicesBuddhismFoolLiberationFulfillmentDharmaRationalize Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.” PeopleCertainChoicesFoolFortuneCommitFolly Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.” ChoicesLossSecretPolicyExampleFoolPoliticianElectionBillsUnionsWorkersEaseEmployeeVotingFrighteningInvitationsBallotsFreedom Of ChoiceIntimidation Author:Thomas Sowell
“I think it's the strange irony that we make all these life choices before we're 40, because really we shouldn't make any until we're 40. It almost feels like you get a software upgrade and you start to experience life in such a different way, because you just don't suffer fools, you go straight for what means something and what feels good, and you stop caring about pleasing other people.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsMeanDifferentSufferingChoicesStrangeLike YouFoolCaringFeel GoodIronyDifferent WaysSoftwareLife ChoicesStop CaringPleasing Others Author:Gwyneth Paltrow
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.” MenHumansSaidWould BeChoicesFallJesusLeftLevelsMoralLordHellTeacherFeetHe ManSonFoolDevilDemonNonsenseEggsSpitMadmenLunaticPatronizingPoached Eggs Author:C. S. Lewis
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.” MenDoeWisdomActionChoicesOpportunityPoliticsWiseFoolIntelligenceApathy Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder. Another is Deity. The choice to be a fool is yours.” BelieveChoicesWonderFoolFollyDeitiesIntangibleHope Love Author:Vera Nazarian
“And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.” DreamRealityDiesChoicesBreakMillionsPiecesFoolTinySettlingHeartburn Author:Nora Ephron
“Jem shook his head. "You bit de Quincey" he said. "You fool. He's a VAMPIRE" "I had no choice" said Will " He was choking me" "I know" Jem said. " But really Will, AGAIN?” KnowsSaidChoicesBitsFoolVampireChokeWill HerondaleJemJem Carstairs Book:Clockwork Angel Source: Clockwork Angel