Quotes - Мартин Гергов (Plovdiv, 51, Bulgaria) Showing 1-30 of 49

#1

“Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me what makes skies so blue,
And I'll tell you why I love you.

Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
Tropisms make the ivy twine,
Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,
Testicular hormones are why I love you. ”
― Isaac Asimov

680 likes

#2

“Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: choices, future, stars

50 likes

#3

“People think of education as something they can finish.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: education

299 likes

#4

“I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.”
― Stanislaw Lem, Solaris by Stanislaw Lem | Summary & Study Guide

tags: emptiness, existence

53 likes

#5

“What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

89 likes

#6

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

1268 likes

#7

“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”
― Stanisław Lem

66 likes

#8

“But what am I going to see?

I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.”
― Stanislaw Lem, Solaris

tags: introspection, lem, self-exploration, solaris

42 likes

#9

“For moral reasons ... the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created ... intentionally.”
― Stanisław Lem

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#10

“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
― Boris Pasternak

tags: life

2854 likes

#11

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: americanism, duty, nationalism

519 likes

#12

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: achievement, labor, prize, work

308 likes

#13

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: achievement, fame, struggle

389 likes

#14

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: busy-learning, competence, job-doing, productivity

404 likes

#15

“The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: fitness, joviality

200 likes

#16

“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: pleasure

384 likes

#17

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: insparational

800 likes

#18

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

527 likes

#19

“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: adventure, anxiety, self-discovery

647 likes

#20

“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

321 likes

#21

“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

370 likes

#22

“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: freedom

226 likes

#23

“My standpoint is armed neutrality.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

111 likes

#24

“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

184 likes

#25

“Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored....”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

tags: idleness

126 likes

#26

“The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

114 likes

#27

“In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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#28

“My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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#29

“Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

118 likes

#30

“To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

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