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#1

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

10131 likes

#2

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas

1422 likes

#3

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

430 likes

#4

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures”
― Voltaire

479 likes

#5

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, imagination

24701 likes

#6

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science

5286 likes

#7

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
― Charles Lamb

2825 likes

#8

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

tags: creativity, humor, misattributed-to-einstein, paraphrased

13074 likes

#9

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

tags: attributed-no-source, humor, misattributed-douglas-adams, wit

11372 likes

#10

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

tags: humor, temptation

7024 likes

#11

“hell is full of good wishes and desires.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

tags: roman

59 likes

#12

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43912 likes

#13

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

tags: sympathy

6315 likes

#14

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

15050 likes

#15

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

tags: chocolate, friendship

16485 likes

#16

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

4673 likes

#17

“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”
― Kafka, Franz

820 likes

#18

“A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. ”
― James Joyce

67 likes

#19

“My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.”
― James Joyce

162 likes

#20

“Too excited to be genuinely happy”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

173 likes

#21

“Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??”
― Jack Kerouac

128 likes

#22

“all day long
wearing a hat
that wasn't on my head”
― jack kerouac

59 likes

#23

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

460 likes

#24

“Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.”
― William S. Burroughs, Dead City Radio

164 likes

#25

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: journalist, truth

927 likes

#26

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

3345 likes

#27

“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”
― Martin Luther

tags: faith, intelligence, reason, religion

149 likes

#28

“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.”
― Dylan Thomas

391 likes

#29

“Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.”
― André Breton

tags: nadja, surrealism

112 likes

#30

“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.”
― Jyrki Vainonen

tags: art, artists, creativity, surrealism, writers, writing

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