Poshi Getoshi > Poshi's Quotes

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

“The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.”
― Richard Dawkins

“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley

“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole an even more unpleasant phenomenon than the regime which gave it birth.”
― Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984

“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
― Mother Teresa

“Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.”
― Kenneth Boulding

“რუსული სივრცე-დროის მეტაფიზიკურ თავისებურებად უნდა ჩაითვალოს ის ფენომენი, რომ საკუთარ თავს და შენს გარშემო მყოფთ ყოველი დღე უქციო ჯოჯოხეთად….. ეს მუდმივი ისტორიული კოლაფსია ორ დიდ, დასავლურ და აღმოსავლურ ცივილიზაციებს შორის!
ეთნიკური რუსი ერთი ჩვეულებრივი ადამიანია თავის დადებითით და უარყოფითით. არაფრით უარესი და არაფრით უკეთესი სხვა ეთნოსის წარმომადგენელზე!
მაგრამ რუსები, როგორც რუსულ იმპერიულ-ტირანიული სივრცის ბინადარნი და ამ სისტემის იდეოლოგიით ტვინდაკომპასებულ ხალხთა მასები, ამოვარდნილნი არიან რეალური ისტორიული სივრცე დროისაგან…როგორც ჩაადაევი და როზანოვი წერდნენ – აქ სრული კოლაფსი და გამყოფი უფსკრულია აღმოსავლურ და დასავლურ ცივილიზაციებს შორის!”
― Merab Mamardashvili

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
― Stewart Brand

“If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.”
― George W. Bush

“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
― Louis C.K.

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Socialism really works under some circumstances. Karl Marx just had the wrong species.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake. And I think if you look at the present state of the world it's pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistake. We're on the wrong road. And if that is so we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

“To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.”
― Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

“რამაზ კინგკონგი ჩემი უსაყვარლესი დრაგმეითი იყო. და თუ ბუნებაში არსებობს ცნება „ქართული ოცნება“, რამაზ კინგკონგი ამ ცნების სრული ოპოზიტი იყო, ნამდვილი ქართული კოშმარი: სომეხი, ბარიგა და გეი. პლუს ზონდერად ნამუშევარი.”
― Zura Jishkariani, საღეჭი განთიადები: Sugar Free

“It was at this period that Drogo realised how far apart men are whatever their affection for each other, that if you suffer the pain is yours and yours alone, no one else can take upon himself the least part of it; that if you suffer it does not mean that others feel pain even though their love is great: hence the loneliness of life.”
― Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe

“Well-drawn laws should themselves define all the points they possibly can and leave as few as may be to the decision of the judges.”
― Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
― Steve Jobs

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“there certainly are philosophers who take seriously the question of whether numbers exist, and this distinguishes them from mathematicians, who either find it obvious that numbers exist or do not understand what is being asked.”
― Timothy Gowers, Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction

“A3 0 is an additive identity: 0 + a = a for any number a. That is all you need to know about 0. Not what it means – just a little rule that tells you what it does.”
― Timothy Gowers, Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction