#Quotes

Quotes are not my mottos.

They are some combination of words that shines light on one facet of the human reality or experience.

And the human life is multi-faceted, so I have no problem with seemingly opposing quotes coexisting as long as each says something about life that adds to my perspective.

Or maybe they don’t even have to say as much. Some were saved for no reason beyond my aesthetic enjoyment. Actually, if you were to ask me, I am not even confident that I have a sound reason ready for every entry as to why I decided to save them.

So the real description for entries here are words I catalog out of gut feelings.

October 24, 2026 6:30 pm

GEOFFREY: Why, you chivalric fool—as if the way one fell down mattered.

RICHARD: When the fall is all there is, it matters.

credit: -- James Goldman, The Lion in Winter, 1966 / Eric Ries, Incorruptible, 2026

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October 24, 2026 6:22 pm
一个有手艺的人，你才能知道自己和世界的边界。
我自己有一个行动的准则：就一件事儿，可做可不做，只要有空，就做。为什么，因为会产生意外。

credit: 罗振宇

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October 23, 2026 2:25 pm
He who has a why can bear almost any how.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man? / I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

credit: Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche has some of the most biting quotes as a non-believer and it’s truly a joy to behold.

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October 22, 2026 9:34 pm
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. / To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. / Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. (OMFG I cannot. Feel attacked & seen at the same time)
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. (HAHAHHA ok Oscar)
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. (eye-opening definition)

credit: Oscar Wilde

A Chinese character that I think captures Oscar Wilde’s vibe rather well is 痞. Have yet to find its counterpart in English, maybe it’ll come to me someday.

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October 20, 2026 9:36 am

沉默的螺旋：如果你选择沉默，那么那些原本支持你观点的人，想帮你发出声音的人，他们会觉得孤单没有依靠，所以他会更倾向于选择沉默。

所以什么叫作沉默的螺旋呢，意思就是，你的沉默，不是你一个人的沉默。你的沉默，是一个黑洞，一旦开启，真相就再也逃不出这个漩涡。

credit: 邱晨

马东老师说过一句话我非常喜欢，叫作

“被误解是表达者的宿命“

但是我想说的是，澄清可能就是表达的定义。

credit: 邱晨/马东

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October 18, 2026 11:19 pm

“生活啊 好比那黑夜里漫长的路 走过的人 他从不说出来“

他为什么不说

因为他走之前 无人可说

他走过了 也就不用再说了

credit: 臧鸿飞/野孩子

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