Because - Quotes
I`m lazy. But it`s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn`t like walking or carrying things.
I act because it`s the one time I`m sure of my identity. There`s no doubt. It`s on paper.
You have to ask yourself, why is there political correctness? The only answer is because you`re afraid to say what you honestly believe.
You shouldn`t like things just because people tell you you`re supposed to.
There can be no eternal life because the very basis of life is its transient and dynamic nature.
If we give a description of the world that ignores point of view, that is solely "from the outside" - of space, of time, of a subject - we may be able to say many things but we lose certain crucial aspects of the world. Because the world that we have been given is the world seen from within it, not from without.
I do not fear death. I fear suffering. And I fear old age, though less so now that I am witnessing the tranquil and pleasant old age of my father. I am afraid of frailty, and of the absence of love. But death does not alarm me. It did not scare me when I was young, and I thought at the time that this was because it was such a remote prospect. But now, at sixty, the fear has yet to arrive. I love life, but life is also struggle, suffering, pain. I think of death as akin to a well-earned rest.
When we cannot formulate a problem with precision, it is often not because the problem is profound: it`s because the problem is false.
Life is full of ups and downs, and we need to celebrate the ups because the downs are right around the corner.
To all the girls that think you`re fat because you`re not a size zero, you`re the beautiful one, its society who`s ugly.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who `forgives` you - out of love - takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can`t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. an alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time. There might have been a time when only one man did, because he was the only guy who caught on, before he wrote his paper. But after people read the paper a lot of people understood the theory of relativity in some way or other, certainly more than twelve. On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.