“Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." (Seneca)

"America is the sublime and the abominable." (Jean-Pierre Melville)

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” (The Gospel of Thomas, a non-canonical, Coptic-language, gnostic gospel consisting of 114 sayings from [they say] Jesus; later suppressed as heresy by early church fathers, only to be rediscovered in 1940s Upper Egypt)

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.” (William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying)

"Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up." (Will Rogers)

"But good writers have a reason for doing things the way they do them, and if you tinker with their work, taking it upon yourself to neutralize a slightly eccentric usage or zap a comma or sharpen the emphasis of something that the writer was deliberately keeping obscure, you are not helping. In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process. They weigh queries, and they accept or reject them for good reasons. They are not defensive. The whole point of having things read before publication is to test their effect on a general reader. You want to make sure when you go out there that the tag on the back of your collar isn't poking up—unless, of course, you are deliberately wearing your clothes inside out." (Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen)

"Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind." (Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces)

Philophile, n. Lover of ‘philes.’

“I don’t want anyone to challenge my right to sound completely mad.” (Duke Ellington)

Mark Zuckerberg kills goats with laser guns.

“This I regard as history’s highest function: to let no action be uncommunicated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.” (Tacitus)

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” (Adam Smith)

“A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

“All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.” (Charles William Eliot)

Sometimes it’s nice to come say hello to your old subculture.

“Idiot, n: a member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.” (Ambrose Bierce)

"If you aren’t getting happier as you get older, you’re doing it wrong." (Naval Ravikant)

"Only when one knows where one is to rest can one have a fixed purpose. Only with a fixed purpose can one achieve calmness of mind. Only with calmness of mind can one attain serene repose. Only in serene repose can one carry on careful deliberation. Only through careful deliberation can one have achievement. Things have their roots and branches; affairs have their beginning and end. They that know what comes first and what comes last come themselves near the Way." (The Great Learning, authorship unknown but often attributed to Zengzi, a disciple of Confucius; perhaps as early as 200 BCE)

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful." (Mae West)