Luc Ferry Quotes

#1. I look at some of the old villains in the Disney movies. If you really listen, you can hear some of the villains or some of the supporting characters, they use the voices over and over because they were so versatile in the way that they performed on voiceovers.

Jennifer Stone

#2. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence
-Eli

Sarah Dessen

#3. I didn't leave you. We couldn't-you have to-

Eloisa James

#4. The present moment is the only dimension of existence worth inhabiting, because it is the only one available to us. (...)
Yet we live virtually all of our lives somewhere between memories, and aspirations, nostalgia and expectations.

Luc Ferry

#5. But not quite, for actually it is only the known, the seen, the heard and only those events that the recorder regards as important that are put down, those lies his keepers keep their power by.

Ralph Ellison

#6. To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

Bethany Hamilton

#7. In terms of game theory, the opposite of a failed tactic is not necessarily success.

Robert Ferrigno

#8. Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

Sandro Veronesi

#9. death means everything that is unrepeatable. Death is, in the midst of life, that which will not return; that which belongs irreversibly to time past, which we have no hope of ever recovering.

Luc Ferry

#10. Cats are small lions. Lions are big cats.

Mitsuaki Iwago

#11. I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

John Barth

#12. What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either because he has been lost or because he has been found?

Jodi Picoult

#13. The Gods are not to be feared; death cannot be felt; the good can be won; what we dread can be conquered.

Luc Ferry

#14. Our history, especially that of the great religions, Christianity in particular, has given us a "hidden prejudice" in favor of the "beyond" at the expense of the "here and now" and this must be changed.
(quoted from The Age of Atheists" by Peter Watson, p 25)

Luc Ferry

#15. True knowledge is not to be had solely through a combat against error, bad faith and untruth, but more generally, through a combat against the illusions inherent in the sensible world.

Luc Ferry

#16. Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

Natasha Lyonne

#17. Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

Baltasar Gracian

#18. One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

Michael J. Fox

#19. ..the irreversibility of things is a kind of death at the heart of life and threatens constantly to steer us into time past- the home of
nostalgia, guilt, regret and remorse, the great spoilers of happiness.

Luc Ferry

#20. If you catch yourself apologizing and then using the word but, stop dead in your tracks and back up. That little conjunction should be like a blinking red light, indicating that you are not taking ownership.

Michael Hyatt

#21. It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

Steven Rattner

#22. The world is a chaos, an irreducible plurality of forces, instincts and drives which ceaselessly clash.

Luc Ferry