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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valéry
July 16, 2025
We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes..
Doris Lessing
July 15, 2025
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Terry Pratchett
July 14, 2025
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them.
Ayn Rand
July 13, 2025
Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
Rudyard Kipling
July 12, 2025
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
July 11, 2025
The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
John Irving
July 10, 2025
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.
Ayn Rand
July 9, 2025
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein
July 8, 2025
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
Doris Lessing
July 7, 2025
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