Mortale Quotes

#1. The event, in its emergence, poses its own premises, determining that they were the conditions for its realization. This transition is always the result of a salto mortale, which is a creative act in the sense that it gives the preceding links in the chain of events their meaning.

Stathis Kouvelakis

#2. A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#3. Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

William Arthur Ward

#4. Freedom - rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?

Ian C. Esslemont

#5. So there you have it: you must believe in something...and that is universal! Believing in nothing is a belief system in itself.

Kazeem Olalekan

#6. When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.

Francine Pascal

#7. And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time.

Ian McEwan

#8. Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

Andrew Leigh

#9. Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#10. The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

James M. Kouzes

#11. Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#12. Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#13. Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?

Sylvia Plath

#14. Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.

Pope Francis

#15. Because if you are fragmented and uncertain it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt. Survival in a desert, then, requires that you lose this fragmentation, and fast. It is not a mystical experience, or rather, it is dangerous to attach these sorts of words to it.

Robyn Davidson

#16. I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

Keith Carter