Christian Fleschhut > Christian's Quotes

“People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
― Bertold Brecht

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
― James Baldwin

“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“One sign of maturity is a realization of the extent to which you, either intentionally or unintentionally, make life difficult for those around you. Consequently, you should keep in mind the words of Seneca: “we are bad men living among bad men; and only one thing can calm us—we must agree to go easy on one another.”1”
― William B. Irvine, The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Although it condemns "discrimination" and advocates "freedom of choice", liberal feminism steadfastly refuses to address the socioeconomic constraints that make freedom and empowerment impossible for the large majority of women. Its real aim is not equality, but meritocracy.”
― Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

“The best way to learn how to write code is to write code.”
― Kyle Simpson, You Don't Know JS

“The heart that
breaks open can
contain the
whole universe.”
― Joanna Macy

“Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)”
― Alexander von Humboldt

“When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.”
― Chinese Proverb

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Instead of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill? The ‘mental health plague’ in capitalist societies would suggest that, instead of being the only social system that works, capitalism is inherently dysfunctional, and that the cost of it appearing to work is very high.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“We might meet again, someday between dreams at dawn.”
― Shuntarō Tanikawa, New Selected Poems

“This is time for us. Memory. A nostalgia. The pain of absence. But it isn't absence that causes sorrow. It is affection and love. Without affection, without love, such absences would cause us no pain.
For this reason, even the pain caused by absence is in the end something good and even beautiful. Because it feeds on that which gives meaning to life.”
― Carlo Rovelli, L'ordine del tempo

“Man braucht nur eine Insel
Allein im weiten Meer.
Man braucht nur einen Menschen,
den aber braucht man sehr.”
― Mascha Kaléko

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca