Vladimir > Vladimir's Quotes

“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
― George Carlin

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“belief is the death of intelligence.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
― Frank Zappa

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
― Nikola Tesla

“Nije mi žao što su ukrali moje ideje, već što nisu imali svoje”
― Nikola Tesla

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
― Ayn Rand

“Samo nam ljudsko biće može podariti potpunu iluziju sigurnosti. Samo glas, pogled i dodir ruke jednog čoveka deluju kao utešna poruka iz svemira u kome smo mi tako sićušni. Ovaj čovek može da nam bude prijatelj, lekar, ređe kakav rođak, ali bez izuzetka to je uvek osoba koja nas voli. Strasna ljubav je kao uveličavajuće staklo, koje prikazuje vrednosti u nama za koje nismo ni slutili. Razbije li se uveličavajuće staklo, oplakaćemo gubitak optičke iluzije o sebi.”
― Lajos Zilahy, The Angry Angel

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ”
― john f kennedy

“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”
― John F. Kennedy

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
― John F. Kennedy, Why England Slept

“Ich Bin Ein Berliner”
― JFK

“We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.”
― John F. Kennedy

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”
― Descartes

“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
― René Descartes

“Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us...”
― Descartes

“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain