Kukuh Irianto Quotes

#1. and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception

Arthur Koestler

#2. I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

Edward Tufte

#3. In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.

James Clavell

#5. When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

Sigmund Freud

#6. The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.

Erich Maria Remarque

#7. I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

Kara Walker

#8. We are very much in need now of Christian pioneers. This means a people who are zealous to grow and to exercise dominion in Christ.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#9. I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

John Banville

#10. If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

#11. You can't shrink your way to greatness!

Seth Godin

#12. The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

John Green

#13. Death is the end of our ephemeral life and beginning of infinite eternal life.

Debasish Mridha