Paul Dillon > Paul's Quotes

“I thought to live
two centuries, or three-
yet here comes death
to me, a child
just eighty five years old”
― Hanabusa Ikkei

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”
― Democritus

“I don't believe in science. Science is our defense against belief.”
― J. Allan Hobson

“Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.”
― Laurens van der Post

“The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
― Albert Camus

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has insufficient capital to form a corporation.”
― Howard Scott

“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

“Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail that reaches everywhere: exotic sounds, spills of sunlight, foliage, fallen trees, small beasts that flee at the sound of a twig-snap, insects, silence, flowers.
And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.”
― James Salter, Light Years