Izaiya > Izaiya's Quotes

“I hated the enemy without knowing why. i picked up a gun without knowing why. I obeyed my country without knowing why. Ignorance isn't bliss. Ignorance is weakness. Ignorance is a sin.”
― Tatsuya Endo, SPY×FAMILY 10

“The whole world is one giant onion. Big and round, with one false layer after another. And if you cut through those layers of lies... there are gonna be tears.”
― Tatsuya Endo, SPY×FAMILY 10

“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes

“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
― René Descartes

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
― René Descartes

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”
― René Descartes

“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”
― René Descartes

“Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.”
― Descartes René 1596-1650

“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”
― René Descartes, Discourse on Method

“So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.”
― René Descartes, Rules for the Direction of the Mind

“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.”
― René Descartes

“It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable”
― René Descartes

“Don't listen to people telling you that getting up early is best. René Descartes is one of history's most important philosophers, but he rarely got out of bed before noon - and when he started getting up early for a new job as a private tutor, it caused him to catch pneumonia and die.”
― Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists

“Dubium sapientiae initium (Doubt is the origin of wisdom).”
― René Descartes

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Push your boundaries, that's what they're there for.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche