#ty

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#against #derision #divinity #follow #footsteps

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#knowledge #perplexity

One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#believe #come #europe #foolish #good

When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#jews #mean #only #speak #totality

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. ↗

— William Gibson

#city #clusters #complexity #computer #constellations

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. ↗

— William Gibson

#enough #future #i #like #most

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. ↗

— Andre Gide

#each #joy #line #loyalty #makes

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ↗

— Andre Gide

#angle #approached #away #difficulty #next

You're not gay, are you?" Simon's greenish color deepened. "If I were, I would dress better. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fashion #gay #simon-lewis #city

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. ↗

— Andre Gide

#me #rising #serenity #sole #suits