Shorter is better:
It's easy to remember, but abbreviations are simplifications. The map is not the territory.
You can find deep insight in strange places. The following quotes are randomly collected from various traditions; if you prefer Asian wisdom, I suggest you check out the section on Chinese Proverbs. The sayings below contain rich meanings: fortune cookies for intellectuals.
Fame is the mask that eats the face.
To buy is to be.
This story is fiction.
When in doubt, shop it out.
Even change changes. Unknown.
A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy. Native American Proverb
The hands of the free are a scale.
Without attention, information means very little.
Henry Adams: ‘I expected the worst, and it was worse than I expected."
Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of humans. Proverbs, 27:20
The best way to do something is to do it. Joseph Eagle
I know not with what weapons World War Ill will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein.
No matter how a war starts, it always ends in mud. US General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, during World War II
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. Blaise Pascal, The Art of Persuasion
The future’s already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet. William Gibson
It's a business doing pleasure with you. Disneyland
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. Blaise Pascal
Personality is a strategy for getting out of childhood alive. Frank Sulloway
We have to learn how to live without truth. Nietzsche.
Due to current economic conditions, the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off. (Anonymous.)
You are a hero just like us: Therefore, sacrifice yourself to the sum of all zeros: society. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” Oscar Wilde
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Thinking for myself takes a lot of time. Unknown.
Better to see the face than to hear the name. Zen Saying
Wake up and smell the permafrost. Highway Graffiti in San Francisco
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. Oscar Wilde
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Sir Francis Darwin
Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it is. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - 1967)
They can because they think they can. Virgil
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
SORRY! The lifestyle you ordered is currently out of stock. ---- Banksy
“There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.” — Banksy
“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. ” — Banksy
“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. ” — Banksy
“If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.” — Banksy
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.” — Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)
“A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.” — Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)
“A lot of mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.” — Banksy (Wall and Piece)
The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It’s people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages” — Banksy
If I go on long enough calling that my life I’ll end up by believing it. It’s the principle of advertising. Samuel Beckett
'People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ' -Søren Kierkegaard
'Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.' -Robert Frost
“Thinking is, indeed, essentially the negation of that which is immediately before us.” Georg Hegel
Philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts. Deleuze, in: What is Philosophy? p. 7
Her favorite position is being beside herself, and her favorite sport is jumping to conclusions. Danny Kaye
An intellectual is somebody who found out that there is something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley
Shorter is often better, but sometimes it is not: Fashion Check in Berlin, 1920.