Favourite Quotes
" The most remarkable property of the universe is that it has spawned creatures able to ask questions. "
— 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. "
— 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. "
— George Orwell, 1984
" silence is a true friend who never betrays! After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music! "
— Confucius / Aldous Huxley