Jay Z 444 Quotes

#1. I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism
the idolatry of the 20th century.

Cornel West

#2. Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself.

Dalai Lama

#4. We don't feel like that's a good faith offer, because it seems more like you're just trying to save money on cockroaches.

David Wong

#5. The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. I made an oath to myself:
as long as I live
as long as my soul remains in this body
I won't deviate from the right way
but later I looked to my left and then to my right
and I saw our beloved everywhere
how could I make a wrong turn?

Rumi

#7. Self-pity leads to continuing to love the sin so it still has power over you, but hating yourself. Real repentance is when you say, "What has this sin done to God? What has it cost God? What does God feel about it?

Matt Papa

#8. The self is a thought that tells itself that thought is a self.

Jasun Horsley

#9. In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.

Edmund Burke

#10. I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Joni Mitchell