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"“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary — she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.”"
"I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story."
"I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them."
"Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'."
"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."
"What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out."
"It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers."
"I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira"
"The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out."
"A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel."
"If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them."
"In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison."
"It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence."
"I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life."
"There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted."
"There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere"
"I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign."
"I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated."
"You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it."
"A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness."
