Siddharth Nishar > Siddharth's Quotes

“Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.”
― Czeslaw Milosz, Selected Poems

“People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.”
― Will Durant

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ”
― Will Durant

“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.”
― Will Durant

“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

“World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

“To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky