Quotes

A school should not
Be an ivory tower or a museum,
Nor like an office,
Or a service station for motorcars;
But a frontier post.

Hunger changes bread into cake, beans into beefsteak.

I might be a defeated soldier, but I was trained to win.

Yet, a scary thought crossed my mind. I felt like I was ripping everyone off this time. I didn’t really do such a great job, but the atmosphere was really like that….

So, before others take notice, I need to quickly raise my standard. I have to work hard and change these bubbles into solid soap.

– IU

You’ll eventually get caught no matter how careful you are. The key is to become a person who doesn’t need to be careful.

– JYP

O God! sometimes I wish that there had never been a religion, because that which should unite mankind into one common brotherhood has been through all the ages a cause of strife, of discord, and of bloodshed. Members of the same family have persecuted one another because of the different manner in which they worshipped one and the same God. Those who ought to have been bound together by the tenderest love have turned with hatred from one another. Differences of Church, albeit in each the same word, God, is spoken, have built a dividing wall between two throbbing hearts. I often ask myself uneasily: is religion indeed a blessing to mankind? Religion, which is meant to save us from our sins, how many sins are committed in thy name?

— Raden Adjeng Kartini (Letters of a Javanese Princess)

They’re talking about a fantasy,
They’re making up another fantasy,
They’re talking about a fantasy,
They’re making up a story,
So that they can control you and me.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

— Confucius

When the product is free, the real product is You.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

—Richard P. Feynman