#lie

Lies require commitment. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#commitment

What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food. ↗

— François Jacob

#meaning #art

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#earth #humanity #outer-space #universe #trouble

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#believe #dream #literature #dreams

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #narrowmindedness #reading #self-deception #self-limiting-beliefs

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#also #always #been #continuing #done

All I know next are his arms, the desperate edge to his voice when he says my name, and I'm unraveling in his embrace, I'm frayed and falling apart and I'm making no effort to control the tremors in my bones and he's so hot his skin is so hot and I don't even know where I am anymore. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#effort

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means... ↗

— Umberto Eco

#believe

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#telekinetics #believe

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#haunt #believe