Daniel Archbold > Daniel's Quotes

“And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.”
― Soren Kierkegaar

“I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.”
― Philip K. Dick

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If I determine the enemy's disposition of forces while I have no perceptible form, I can concentrate my forces while the enemy is fragmented. The pinnacle of military deployment approaches the formless: if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it nor the wise make plans against it.”
― Sun Tzu

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

“Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective.”
― Pravin Lal

“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе

“You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
― Plato

“The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.”
― Saint Augustine

“A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever”
― Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

“It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.”
― H.G. Wells

“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”
― Aesop

“Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature”
― aesop

“Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain”
― aesop

“In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.”
― Aesop

“Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”
― Sun-Tzu, A Arte da Guerra

“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”
― Sun Tzu

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Socrates

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
― Socrates

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
― Philip K. Dick

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
― George Bernard Shaw