Thodoros Chountras > Thodoros's Quotes

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
― Friedrich Neitzsche

“Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.”
― Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.”
― Odysseus Elytis, The Axion Esti

“And look, my brother, we learned to talk
very quietly and simply.
We understand each other now - there is no need for anything more.
And I say tomorrow we will become still simpler;
we’ll find those words that take on the same weight in all hearts, on all lips so that we can call figs figs, and a trough a trough, so that others will smile and say: ‘We’re making you a hundred poems an hour’. This is what we want too.
Because we do not sing to separate ourselves from people, my brother,
we sing to bring people together.”
― Yannis Ritsos, The Fourth Dimension

“Καὶ νὰ ἀδελφέ μου ποὺ μάθαμε νὰ κουβεντιάζουμε ἥσυχα κι ἁπλά.
Καταλαβαινόμαστε τώρα, δὲν χρειάζονται περισσότερα.
Κι αὔριο λέω θὰ γίνουμε ἀκόμα πιὸ ἁπλοί.
Θὰ βροῦμε αὐτὰ τὰ λόγια ποὺ παίρνουνε τὸ ἴδιο βάρος
σ' ὅλες τὶς καρδιές, σ' ὅλα τὰ χείλη.
Ἔτσι νὰ λέμε πιὰ τὰ σύκα-σύκα καὶ τὴ σκάφη-σκάφη.
Κι ἔτσι ποὺ νὰ χαμογελᾶνε οἱ ἄλλοι καὶ νὰ λένε,
«Τέτοια ποιήματα, σοῦ φτιάχνουμε ἑκατὸ τὴν ὥρα.»
Αὐτὸ θέλουμε κι ἐμεῖς.
Γιατὶ ἐμεῖς δὲν τραγουδᾶμε γιὰ νὰ ξεχωρίσουμε ἀδελφέ μου ἀπ' τὸν κόσμο.
Ἐμεῖς τραγουδᾶμε γιὰ νὰ σμίξουμε τὸν κόσμο.”
― Yannis Ritsos

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo

“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life”
― Bertolt Brecht, Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays: Includes: In Search of Justice; Informer; Elephant Calf; Measures Taken; Exception and the Rule; Salzburg Dance of Death

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

“Στο βάθος του μυαλού μου όμως ξέρω πως εδώ στο νησί μας, όπως και αλλού, οι γάτες ξεχνάνε, οι άνθρωποι ξεχνάνε και η τρέλα δε θέλει πολύ να φουντώσει πάλι, φτου ξανά απ'την αρχή...”
― Eugene Trivizas, The Last Black Cat