Go - Quotes
- A question, before you go. What is the truth?
- We place faith in ourselves. We see the world the way it really is and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.
- What is the world, then?
- An illusion. One of which can either submit to - like most do - or transcend.
- What is it to transcend?
- To recognize nothing is true and everything is permitted. That laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our creed does not commend us to be free - it commends us to be wise.
People don`t want to pay eight or nine dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That`s why they watch soap operas.
You can`t go back and change the small things in your life without putting the other things at risk.
I don`t mind,
If your hands a little cold.
Cause I`m alive,
But I got no way to go.
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
When you look at the history of what we know about the world, you see a noticeable pattern. Natural explanations of things have been replacing supernatural explanations of them. Like a steamroller. Why the Sun rises and sets. Where thunder and lightning come from. Why people get sick. Why people look like their parents. How the complexity of life came into being. I could go on and on. All these things were once explained by religion. But as we understood the world better, and learned to observe it more carefully, the explanations based on religion were replaced by ones based on physical cause and effect. Consistently. Thoroughly. Like a steamroller.
When people are taught to let go of difficult questions and trust whatever religious authorities tell them? That it`s better to trust their feelings than their critical thinking skills? That evidence and reason are less important than faith? That "doubter" is a synonym for "sinner"? They become vulnerable to every cheater, chiseler, swindler, con artist, and late night infomercial huckster who` s lucky enough to cross their gullible paths.
If home is where the heart is, where do you go when you don`t have a heart?
Ours is a world where people don`t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
We cannot rationally describe the kind of person we will fall in love with: that's why we go on dates - to test our theories about who attracts us.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
Sometimes in life it is a good idea to stop, sometimes it is a good idea to go on. The trick is to decide when to stop.