Sponville Quotes

#1. The difference between a serial killer and a saint is environment. That's a very hard thing to accept because that raises a lot of questions

Jacque Fresco

#2. If you don't believe in yourself nobody else will believe in you.

Jessie J.

#3. As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers

Andre Aciman

#4. You are gonna get it now sweetheart," he grunted, seizing her nipples and massaging them roughly.
"Aw, what are you gonna do Max? Blow a load and get all sad about it afterwards?

Eve Dangerfield

#5. No, what worries me, I readily admit, is everything (that is to say, anything and everything) - everything, that is, except the All, which I find soothing.

Andre Comte-Sponville

#6. All our dreams begin in youth.

Heinrich Harrer

#7. It is better to be too honest to be polite than to be too polite to be honest!

Andre Comte-Sponville

#8. I'm really picky.

Seann William Scott

#9. The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.

Julian Casablancas

#10. Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?

Nick Land

#11. But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.

Wilt Chamberlain

#12. Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Andre Comte-Sponville

#13. According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy.

Matthieu Ricard

#14. Memories are forever~ The Giver

Lois Lowry

#15. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

Kurt Cobain

#16. People don't really change they only get known better.

Johan Coetzer

#17. Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.

Andre Comte-Sponville

#18. Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?

Andre Comte-Sponville

#19. Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

Madonna Ciccone

#20. Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later.

Shannon McKenna

#21. History at its best is vicarious experience.

Edmund Morgan

#22. All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

Andre Comte-Sponville