Favourite Quotes

" The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions. "

Tue, 18 Mar 2025

Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe


" it’s not a fuckin’ book! It’s a weapon! A weapon aimed right at the hearts and minds of the weak and the desperate. It will give us control of them. If we want to rule more than one small, fuckin’ town, we have to have it. People will come from all over, they’ll do exactly what I tell ’em if the words are from the book. It’s happened before and it’ll happen again. All we need is that book. "

Tue, 12 Jul 2016

Carnegie, The book of Eli


" double-think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. "

Mon, 27 Jul 2015

George Orwell, 1984


" silence is a true friend who never betrays! After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music! "

Sun, 26 Jul 2015

Confucius / Aldous Huxley