Negarestani Quotes

#1. It is that peculiar soldiers' humor which springs from the experience of shared misery and often translates poorly to those not on the spot and enduring the same hardship.

Steven Pressfield

#2. To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.

Reza Negarestani

#3. The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring about mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of doubt, the doorway through which truth passes would be tightly shut, impervious to the strenuous poundings of a thousand Lucifer's.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#4. I don't believe that celebrity spokeswomen get their hair colour from a box.

Roberta Pearce

#5. That's what love can do for you if you let it: build a person out of all your broken pieces. It doesn't matter if the stitches show. The stitches, the scars just prove you earned it.

Elan Mastai

#6. And what he had offered me was exactly everything I most wanted - to make art, to build the future, to help each other become our best selves. He honors me.

Jo Walton

#7. Anything can happen for some weird reason; yet also, without any reason, nothing at all can happen.

Reza Negarestani

#8. Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

Rene Descartes

#9. Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

John Abizaid

#10. I remember the university as being very encouraging, especially to experimentation. I think you always get a lot of musicians in any art community, and it seemed like a lot of people I knew worked on films that got made locally.

Neil Farber