"I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one."
- Charles Bukowski
"Our disappointment sits between us."
- Charles Bukowski
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
- Charles Bukowski
"The trouble with a mask is it never changes."
- Charles Bukowski
"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way."
- Charles Bukowski
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
- Charles Bukowski
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
- Charles Bukowski
"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
- Charles Bukowski
"I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed."
- Charles Bukowski
"Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else."
- Charles Bukowski
"We used to build a stone church for the benefit of a few dozen people. Now we often won’t even write a blog post unless 10-thousand will see it"
- Shay Hill
"Many people can absorb any insult or disagreement as long as there is a chorus behind them echoing their POV. The same person cannot stand alone against even mild disagreement. To a person raised on social media, having to debate, rather than signal, feels like being abused."
- Shay Hill
"There is something essential about getting bored together with friends."
- Shay Hill
"The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being."
- Karl Popper
"I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate."
- Karl Popper
"The future depends on ourselves, and we do not depend on any historical necessity."
- Karl Popper
"If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men."
- Karl Popper
"History has no meaning."
- Karl Popper
"'It can't happen here' is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere."
- Karl Popper
"The way of science is paved with discarded theories which were once declared self-evident."
- Karl Popper
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress."