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[Aconite !iZduQelv5w No.483199]

Any other author/quote suggestions?

[Anonymous No.483205]

Dude, fix your font colors.

[Anonymous No.483215]

Jorge Luis Borges

[Anonymous No.483216]

"Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal..."

-H.P Lovecraft.

[Batbro !!ex0R4Q5bw6v No.483217]

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

[Anonymous No.483223]

For fuck's sake, don't pick a black background.
Ever.
>>483217
>>483216
Pick one of these

[Anonymous No.483229]

>>483215
Reality is not always probable, or likely.

[Anonymous No.483235]

I disagree with Mark Twain's quote to the fullest extent.

[Anonymous No.483238]

[Anonymous No.483239]

>>483235

Keep it to yourself.

[Anonymous No.483242]

“The wise speak only of what they know."- J.R.R. Tolkien

[Anonymous No.483246]

And yet, and yet . . . Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny is not frightful by being unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and iron-clad. Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.

or

Every man should be capable of all ideas and I understand that in the future this will be the case.

or

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

[Anonymous No.483248]

>>483235

Yeah I always interpreted that quote as living in ignorance. Better to seem like a fool that is trying to not become a fool by bouncing ideas off people, debating and learning other views, being involved, etc. than wasting any potential for knowledge by keeping ideas to yourself and never fully having them evaluated and seeing their flaws in the eyes of others.

I think the context might be "if you're only gonna say stupid shit that even you don't fully understand then just don't open your mouth." But still opening your mouth and looking stupid might help you fully understand the shit.

[Anonymous No.483251]

This thread seems to be failing. How's about I offer my own two cents?

[Anonymous No.483253]

>>483248

And yet people always think I'm rude when correcting things they say that are entirely incorrect.

[Anonymous No.483256]

>>483251
When I started replying, it was failing. Way to thrive.

[Anonymous No.483257]

"OP is a fag"
           -- Anonymous

[Anonymous No.483260]

>>483257

[Anonymous No.483264]

>>483216

“Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them;"

[Anonymous No.483267]

>>483260
This picture should be throw in there and quoted "a picture being worth a thousand words...and a 40 oz."

[Anonymous No.483271]

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

Mencken

[Anonymous No.483296]

>>483248
But even so, it's because of men like Mark Twain and George Orwell that have opened their mouths and filled our brains with knowledge and has shown us through their eyes, different perspectives of the things they perceive. No one person is going to know absolutely everything on the one subject they are talking about but giving an insight is better than not giving one at all. Those who are remembered are those who DID open their mouths.

[Anonymous No.483310]

"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddamn stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life."

-J.D. Salinger

[Anonymous No.483315]

why would you use a quote from a fiction novel
that doesn't really count as them saying it

[Anonymous No.483321]

Stephen King "The mind is a monkey"

[Captain Indigo !aR10YHrTDg No.483325]

"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."

Samuel Beckett

[Anonymous No.483332]

God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him.

Nietzche

[Anonymous No.483342]

Stephen King

>People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

[Anonymous No.483387]

What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than we love ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

-- Franz Kafka

[Anonymous No.483408]

Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew.


Julio Cortazar

[Anonymous No.484873]

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
~Leo Tolstoy

[Anonymous No.484881]

Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come

-Victor Hugo

[Anonymous No.484898]

The colours of text are poor choices and there is nothing the quotes have in common. There is no point to it.

[Anonymous No.484918]

>>484898
>I'm an asshole

[Anonymous No.485314]

Moustache fetish?

[Anonymous No.485327]

>>484918
>I can't take legitimate criticism.

[Anonymous No.485335]

"Compassion is praised as the virtue of prostitutes"
Nietzsche

[klytus No.485344]

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett