quotes of day Saturday, October 17, 2026

“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.”

“Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.”

“But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.”

“Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.”

“Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.”

“... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.”

“Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.”

“The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering is because you won't stop listening to it!”

“You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos”

“It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard.”

“Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.”

“That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.”