“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
Douglas Adams · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979
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180 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love anymore. They don't teach you how to know what's happening in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
“I'm always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.”
Charles Caleb Colton · Lacon, 1820
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
Confucius
“One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
Cassandra Clare · City of Bones, 2007
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka · Letter to Oskar Pollak, January 27, 1904
“People think I'm joking all the time. Sometimes I am. Sometimes I'm not.”
Oliver Tree
“The whole thing is a joke, but the pain is genuine.”
Oliver Tree
“Music is the only place I can be completely honest.”
Oliver Tree
“Everything I do is a character, but the emotions are real.”
Oliver Tree · Rolling Stone interview, 2020
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates · Plato, Apology, 399 BC
“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”
Elon Musk · SXSW, 2013
“When I was a child, there's one thing that made me feel the most despair, which was reading about the heat death of the universe.”
Elon Musk · Interview, various
“I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad.”
Elon Musk · Rolling Stone interview, 2017
