The Trouble With Everything

Category: Quote

The trouble with books

by Deniz Cem Önduygu

is that the best ones are those that tell you what you know already. (George Orwell, 1984)

The trouble with bullshit

by Deniz Cem Önduygu

is that it’s a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. (Harry Frankfurt)

The trouble with being punctual

by amacinho

is that nobody’s there to appreciate it. (Franklin P. Jones)

The trouble with print

by amacinho

is that it never changes its mind. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

The trouble with freedom

by vandal mimar

is that we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. (Slavoj Žižek)

The trouble with God

by Deniz Cem Önduygu

is that when you talk to Him you’re religious but when He talks to you you’re psychotic. (House on House MD #2.19)

The trouble with Immanuel Kant

by Deniz Cem Önduygu

is that he was skeptical in intellectual matters, but believed implicitly in the maxims that he had imbibed at his mother’s knee in moral matters. (Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian)

The Trouble with Tribbles

by amacinho

is that they are born pregnant and can easily eat an entire planet’s supplies. (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek, episode “The Trouble with Tribbles”.)

The trouble with atheism

by Deniz Cem Önduygu

is that it’s a term that should not even exist; no one ever needs to identify himself as a “non-astrologer” or a “non-alchemist.” (Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation)

The trouble with quantum mechanics

by Deniz Cem Önduygu

is that if you think you understand it, you don’t understand it. (Richard Feynman)

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