Jason

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/jduvel

Jason’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (85)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (143)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

fantasy‎ (41)
sci-fi‎ (39)
magic‎ (4)
time-travel‎ (3)

comedy‎ (2)
cyberpunk‎ (2)
otherworldly‎ (2)
modern-fantasy-horror‎ (1)

art‎ (0)
non-fiction‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Jason’s Quotes

“Winter always turns into Spring”
― Nichiren Daishonin

28 likes

“Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.”
― Nichiren Daishonin, The Major Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Volume 5

29 likes

“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Globe

205 likes

“One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.”
― Nichiren Daishonin, The Major Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Volume One

tags: inspirational

39 likes

“But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.”
― David Frum

tags: conservatism, david-frum, politics, post-truth-politics, tea-party-movement

10 likes

More of Jason’s quotes…