Otherness Quotes (page 386)

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• humanity
• manly
• future

For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss;... Anatole France

• guitar
• player
• others

David Gilmour can do more with one note than most other guitar players can do with the whole fretboard Dave Mustaine

• thinking
• believe
• evening

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does. Andy Rooney

• people
• giving
• manly

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted. Dashiell Hammett

• work
• men
• others

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not. Charles Bukowski

• light
• people
• end

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it Seth Godin

• meaningful
• fighting
• words

Both observer and observed are parts of the world that has an objective existence, and any distinction between them has no meaningful significance. In other words, if you see a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage, it is because there really is a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage. Stephen Hawking

• missing
• stupid
• chance

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. Stephen King

• love
• loved
• each

We agreed to love each other madly. Jack Kerouac

• dead
• life
• business

I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich. I've been in jail more than once and I don't do divorce business. I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don't like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa, both parents dead, no brothers or sisters, and when I get knocked off in a dark alley sometime, if it happens, as it could to anyone... Raymond Chandler

• latin
• compassion
• look

in languages that derive from Latin "compassion" means: we cannot look on coolly as others suffer; or, we sympathize with those who suffer Milan Kundera

• silence
• breakfast
• loathe

We usually exchange bare civilities at breakfast and then settle back to loathe each other cordially in silence. Naguib Mahfouz

• thoughts
• about
• us

We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do. Paulo Coelho

• simple
• world
• may

In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another. R. D. Laing

• people
• past
• caring

Do one thing every day that scares you...Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own...Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. Mary Schmich