Vissarion Belinsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

  • It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  • I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  • I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

  • Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

  • Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

  • Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.

  • I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

  • A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

  • By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.