#provoking

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#rational #thought-provoking #inspirational

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. ↗

— Epictetus

#philosophy #sayings #talk-is-cheap #thought-provoking #wisdom

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind. ↗

— A.T. Baron

#imagination #inspirational #thought-provoking #imagination

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#inspirational #inspiring #philosophical #religious #thought-provoking

Every villain is a hero in his own mind. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#awesome #different #hero #hiddleston #inspiring

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#mystery #thought-provoking #inspirational

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless. ↗

— Bilal Hussain

#inspirational #philosophy #science #technology #thought-provoking

I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling. ↗

— Martin Kippenberger

#i #interested #not interested #only #people

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#thought-provoking #intelligence

Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#doing #either #everybody #goal #hates