quotes about Conquistadors

last updated: November 28, 2023

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador
-- Sigmund Freud

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“Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.”
“All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.”

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“Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.”
“Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.”
“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”
“I hate being called a homosexual because I don't feel that way. It really upsets me ... Being gay can happen in any walk of life, in any world. If you have one gay experience, does that mean you're gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you're straight? Life doesn't work quite so cut and dried.”
“I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the worldâ€¦ And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.”
“If it is true that men have souls that do survive them, he went on, ignoring me, and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.”
“Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm.”
“Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?”

Source : Henry Kirke White (1842). “The Works of Henry Kirke White: Containing His Life, Poems, and Melancholy Hours”, p.204