#all

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#generally #god #last #now #only

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bad #because #commit #dying #i

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#bear #grow #only #seeds #self-destruction

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. ↗

— Richard Branson

#falling #following #learn #over #rules

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#call #dislike #heresy #more #opinion

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#been #disapproval #factor #important #important factor

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#go #our #project #really #tend

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#because #been #childhood #demented #early

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit? ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#allow #development #does #geometry #heterogeneity

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#analytical #consciences #directing #mysterious #people