Chris Mason > Chris's Quotes

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

“Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.”
― Andre Gide

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth”
― Albert Camus

“person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.”
― Robert Greene

“The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M

“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”
― Marcel Proust

“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”
― André Gide