Inspirational Quotes
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“The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.
Quote by -William James
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”
Quote by -William James
“A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.”
Quote by -William James
“If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.”
Quote by -William James
“As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.”
Quote by -William James
“Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.”
Quote by -William James
“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.”
Quote by -William James
“Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.”
Quote by -William James
“A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.”
Quote by -William James
“What right have we to believe Nature under any obligation to do her work by means of complete minds only? She may find an incomplete mind a more suitable instrument for a particular purpose.”
Quote by -William James
“As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!”
Quote by -William James
“Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.”
Quote by -William James
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second”
Quote by -William James
“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
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“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
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“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Quote by -Douglas Adams
Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”
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“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”
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“All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?”
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“Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”
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“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
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“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”
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“Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)”
Quote by -Douglas Adams
“The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”
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“Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.”
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'
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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
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I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!
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I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
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