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[-] Mikina@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Who wants to be consistent? The dullard and the doctrinaire, the tedious people who carry out their principles to the bitter end of action, to the reductio ad absurdum of practice. Not I. Like Emerson, I write over the door of my library the word ‘Whim.’

From Intentions, by Oscar Wilde. It's one of my favorite books, all of the essays there are amazing, I definitely recommend anyone giving it a read.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

The world belongs to the intelligent, the universe belongs to the wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

[-] Auduras@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"Cause nothin' moves faster than the hands of time"

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

"Time is weird. Space too. I hope ours match up again some day."

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"All I know is that I know nothing", Socrates

Took me decades to really understand what he meant.

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[-] BeezKnuts@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I always wanted to be a well known idiot. - Niko Bellic, after not wanting to appear on camera associated with a street justice man

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

"Without challenge there is nothing, and in nothing there is only gloom. In such a state, the difference between absolute power and absolute powerlessness is undetectable."

[-] rothaine@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.

-Billy Shakes

[-] IAmNotAPickle@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

You’ll never get the hang of our game if you keep thinking in flat-earth imagery of right and left, good and evil, up and down. If you need a group label for us, we’re political non-Euclideans. But even that’s not true. Sink me, nobody of this tub agrees with anybody else about anything, except maybe what the fellow with the horns told the old man in the clouds: Non serviam.” Hagbard Celine

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.

[-] FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Drink 'N Thrive... /s

[-] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

"Two tears in a bucket, motherfuck it"

The Lady Chablis

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 2 points 2 years ago

Familiarity breeds contempt

[-] devils_advocate@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Familiarity breeds attempt.

Jane Sherwood Ace

[-] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Even snakes are afraid of snakes

- Steven Wright

[-] OrnateLuna 1 points 2 years ago

All power to all people

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