Quote Of The Week

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)      

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...

2nd Quote of the Week 22 “AI is the anthropomorphium of the people. ” ― Alan Bipe Triggered by several discussions about the (future) impact of AI on society.

Quote of the Week 22 “There is nothing more abstract than the visible. ” ― Giorgio Morandi Also quoted as “Nothing is more abstract than reality. ” Triggered by a visit to the “ Metafisica ” exhibition in Milano. “I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meaning that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.” Source: After The Art Natura morta con intelligenza artificiale

Quote of the Week 7 “ Don’t believe everything you think. ” ―  Sidney K. Bennett Triggered by a recent QuoteInvestigator review. Variants: “ Don’t believe everything you think, especially today. ” “ Don’t believe anything you think and only half what you know. ” Related : “ Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” ―  Edgar Allan Poe (Short story “ The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether ”)

Quote of the Week 5 “ Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” ― Charles de Gaulle Triggered by the recent Quote Investigator research. 

Quote of the Week 45 “ Inside every old person there is a young one wondering what happened.” ― Dan Sullivan   (often attributed to Terry Pratchett) Triggered by a recent Quote Investigator post.

Quote of the Week 43 “ Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt. ” ― Carl Gustav Jung

Quote of the Week 39 “You can not only sell others short, you can also sell yourself short. ” ―  Norbert Hinske   ( Ohne Fußnoten. Prämissen und Folgerungen. ) Alternative translation: “You can fool not only others, but also yourself. ” “Man kann nicht nur andere, man kann auch sich selbst für dumm verkaufen. ” ―  Norbert Hinske   (Aphorismus)

2nd Quote of the Week 38 “ The danger isn't AI thinking like humans, but humanity thinking like AI.” ― Julian Goldstahl Translated from German AIphorism : “ Wir fürchten nicht die KI, die denkt wie ein Mensch, sondern die Menschheit, die denkt wie eine KI. ” ― attributed to  Julian Goldstahl  by DeepSeek

Quote of the Week 38 “ Worry is like paying interest on a debt you don’t owe.” ― often misattributed to Mark Twain  Related:  Quote of the Week 9 / 2022 " Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength . " ―  Corrie ten Boom

Quote of the Week 27 “ We don't really want what we think we desire.” ― Slavoj Žižek Triggered by  thephilosophyquote on  Instagram: Sieh dir diesen Beitrag auf Instagram an Ein Beitrag geteilt von Promoting the world through books (@indieauthorshowcase) As quoted on Goodreads  and BigThink : “ We don't really want to get what we think that we want. I am married to a wife and relationship with her are cold and I have a mistress. And all the time I dream oh my god if my wife were to disappear - I'm not a murderer but let us say- that it will open up a new life with the mistress.Then, for some reason, the wife goes away, you lose the mistress. You thought this is all I want, when you have it there, you turn out it was a much more complex situation. It was not to live with the mistress, but to keep her as a distance as on object of desire about which you dream. This is not an excessive example, I claim this is how things function.  We don't really w...

Quote of the Week 20 “ Everything you can imagine is real. ” ―  Pablo Picasso Obviously generated by AI

Quote of the Week 17 “ The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer.” ―  Ward Cunningham ( Cunningham's Law ) 

Quote of the Week 7 " Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say. " ― Andy Stanley   Often quoted as: " Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say. "

Quote of the Week 6 " I only improve careless mistakes, not the ones that suit my nature. " ―  Michel de Montaigne Triggered by the discussion of Montaigne's  Essais  in a  WDR 5 podcast . A translation of the quote published in German : "Ich verbessere nur die Fehler, die ich aus Unachtsamkeit begehe, nicht die, welche meiner Art entsprechen."