Tag: Quotables

Illustrative things said by people other than me. Think of them as pieces of congealed wonder and wisdom.

Women run the world; we men don’t know what the hell we’re doing. And wisdom comes from accepting this.”
– Me

We are spiritual beings having a physical experience.”
— Teilhard de Chardin

Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not with you, is an idol.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Bumpersticker seen this afternoon (2505.21)

It is necessary,” answered Don Quixote, “to know everything in the profession I follow.”
— Miguel de Cervantes

Silence is the language of God. Everything else is a poor translation.”
— Rumi

LAUGH. SEE?”
— J.R. “Bob” Dobbs

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– Philip K. Dick

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
— Thos. Jefferson

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.”
— Albert Camus

I’m not here. I’m an event. I’m an improbable coalescence of stardust enjoying one fleeting, glorious dance through the cosmos before … poof.”
— Adrian Bliss

We’re all just raindrops on a windshield.”
— Jerry Seinfeld, to Michael Richards in “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”