#al

There's a great body of people who flower at night, who feel night is their time. Night is the time people truly become individuals, because all the familiar things are dark and done, all the restrictions on freedom are removed. Many artists work at night - it is particularly conducive to creative work. Many of us attuned to night are not artists but are embattled against the official, organized, righteous day people who are completely bound by their switchboards and their red tape. ↗

— John Crosby

#freedom

Good days, they come around the oddest corners. ↗

— Colum McCann

#inspirational

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#love #lovelessness #love

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#dignity #equality #sharing #equality

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract something equally edifying and then move on. That's how to get on in life. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#equality

CHAPTER VI Concerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And Ability LET no one be surprised if, in speaking of entirely new principalities as I shall do, I adduce the highest examples both of prince and of state; because men, walking almost always in paths beaten by others, and following by imitation their deeds, are yet unable to keep entirely to the ways of others or attain to the power of those they imitate. A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#aim #example #followers #goal #goals

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#rationality #reality #thinking #equality

She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#equality

Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#poetry #seeking #walt-whitman #equality

I told you that my idea was great." "They usually are." "Holy [crap]. Did you just admit that?" "Maybe I did." "Uh-huh, you've always known my ideas hit a ten." "On a scale of 1 to 100, yes." "Ha.Ha. Guess what.Got another idea." "Does it involve eggs?" "It doesn't involve eggs." "It doesn't?" "But it does involve something equally tasty. And it involves you, me, a bed, and very little, if any, clothing. ↗

— J. Lynn

#cam #eggs #equality