Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
Send
Behavior
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
I'm not going to say anything inspirational, I'm just going to fucking swear a lot.
Send
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
It was the poor part of town—small houses and courts with mailboxes full of spiders, mailboxes hanging by one nail, old women inside rolling cigarettes and chewing tobacco and humming to their canaries and watching you, an idiot lost in the rain.
from the book "" by Charles Bukowski
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire... equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.
Send
As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has no reference, either immediately or remotely, to a social end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement.
Send
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
The tranquility and peace that a scholar needs is something as sweet and exhilarating as love. Unspeakable joys are showered on us by the exertion of our mental faculties; the quest of ideas, and the tranquil contemplation of knowledge; delights indescribable, because purely intellectual and impalpable to our senses.
Send