Quote Of The Week

Quote of the Week 34 “ The two most common elements in the  universe  are hydrogen and  stupidity . ” ― Harlan Ellison ( also attributed to Frank Zappa)     Triggered by a QuoteInvestigator tweet.     Related: “Two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” ― attributed to Albert Einstein    

Quote of the Week 33 “ Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. ” ―  Austin Kleon   ( Steal Like an Artist )     More quotes  from  Steal Like an Artist :      “ In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out. ”       “ You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. ”   “ Don’t worry about doing research. Just search. ”   “ When people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. ”   “ Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts. ”        

Quote of the Week 32 “ If you are persistent, you will get it.  If you are consistent, you will keep it. ” ― Harvey Mackay  ( Mackay's Moral )     Extended :   “ If you are persistent, you will get it.  If you are consistent, you will keep it.  If you are grateful, you will attract more of it. ”      

Quote of the Week 31 “ Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer. ” ―  Ziad K. Abdelnour  ( Economic Warfare )     More Abdelnour quotes .   Triggered by the following tweet : Seek respect, not attention. — Mindfulness Thoughts (@Mindfulness_DQ) July 4, 2026

Quote of the Week 30 “ The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are. ” ― Denis Waitley       More Denis Waitley quotes .      

Quote of the Week 29 “ Humour is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. ” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein  ( Culture and Value , pg. 78) “ Humor ist keine Stimmung, sondern eine Weltanschauung. ” ―  Ludwig Wittgenstein  ( Vermischte Bemerkungen ) Triggered by the inscription on the fountain at Artur-Kutscher-Platz in Munich.

Quote of the Week 28 “ Time is but memory in the making. ” ― Vladimir Nabokov As cited in  Recursion by Blake Crouch. Context as provided in Nabokov's interview with BBC-2 in 1969: Let me quote a paragraph in my book Ada : " Physiologically the sense of Time is a sense of continuous becoming. . . . Philosophically , on the other hand, Time is but memory in the making. In every individual life there goes on, from cradle to deathbed, the gradual shaping and strengthening of that backbone of consciousness, which is the Time of the strong." This is Van speaking, Van Veen, the charming villain of mv book. I have not decided yet if I agree with him in all his view's on the texture of time. I suspect I don't.   See  Restoration of time: Henry Bergson and Vladimir Nabokov  for an exploration of Nabokov's notion of time, viewing it through the lens of Henri Bergson ’s philosophy. According to Nabokov “time is essentially memory in th...

Quote of the Week 27 “A man's truth is, first and foremost, what he hides. ” ― André Malraux Original ( Antimémoires , 1967 , pg. 16): “La vérité d'un homme, c'est d'abord ce qu'il cache. On  m'a  prêté  la  phrase  d'un  de  mes  personnages :  « L'homme  est  ce  qu'il  fait!»  Certes,  il  n'est  pas  que  cela;  et  le  personnage  répondait  à  un  autre,  qui  venait  de  dire : «Qu'est-ce qu'un homme? Un misérable petit tas de secrets ...»”     This paraphrases a line of dialogue from his own earlier work ( Les Noyers de l'Altenburg , 1943) :  “ Essentially, a person is what they hide : a miserable little pile of secrets. ”   Triggered by a recent  tweet : We are defined less by what we show the world, and more by what we hide from it. pic.twitter.com/sb7DLDcA1E — Dr Pooja Garg (@poojagarg1111) June 21, 202...

Quote of the Week 26 “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.  Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. ” ―  Ralph Waldo Emerson   Triggered by a recent tweet : "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." | Ralph Waldo Emerson — Philosophy Thoughts (@Philosophy_DQ) June 6, 2026 Source : Self-Reliance  (final sentences) from  Essays: First Series (1841) Initial quote   therein - originally by Aulus Persius Flaccus : “Ne te quaesiveris extra. ” (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)      

2nd Quote of the Week 25 “ I have reached the State of Enlaughment. ” ― Alan Bipe  

Quote of the Week 25 “ To be is to be perceived (or to perceive). ” ― George Berkeley   The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy summarizes:   A mind-independent thing is something whose existence is not dependent on thinking/perceiving things, and thus would exist whether or not any thinking things (minds) existed. Berkeley holds that there are no such mind-independent things, that, in the famous phrase, esse est percipi (aut percipere) — to be is to be perceived (or to perceive) .     Triggered by the following question in the book " Dark Matter " by Blake Crouch :       Note: In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger proposed a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition known as " Schrödinger's Cat " that asks whether reality itself exists in a definite state before we look. According to  Schrödinger’s Cat: The Paradox That Redefined Reality ,  Schrödinger’s point was not that he believed cats could be both alive and dead—but that the quant...

Quote of the Week 24 “The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. ” ― Albert Einstein   Triggered by   François Chollet 's tweet : See also: https://t.co/pYUVXoRwvP — Peter Lipps (@pelimuc) May 29, 2026   For background see:  Einstein on The Essential Feature of Productive Thought , fs.blog,  Farnam Street Media Inc.   (A) The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought.  The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be “voluntarily” reproduced and combined. There is, of course, a certain connection between those elements and relevant logical concepts. It is also clear that the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above-mentioned elements. But taken from a psychol...