"Insanity isn’t a plea. It’s a way of life!"

Harry Hunt (Nathaniel Parker) in Malice In Wonderland

"I think Radio 4 is worth the entire license fee. I get terribly cross when people go on about how much BBC “talent” is getting paid. Please have a quick look at Radio 4: I make less than a minicab driver. But I love the intelligence of it. When I come back from holiday, and I put it on when I’m driving from the airport, and I hear Peter Donaldson saying, “And now part four of the history of the duffel coat,” I think oh yes, I’m home now, everything’s all right."

Sandi Toksvig. (via slightly)

THIS.

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"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

Oscar Wilde  (via sothenshe)

hurricanedrunkincosmiclove:

do not regret growing older. it is a privilege denied to many

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"One sticks one’s finger into the soil to tell by the smell in what land one is: I stick my finger in existence — it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? How came I here? What is this thing called the world? What does this world mean? Who is it that has lured me into the world? Why was I not consulted, why not made acquainted with its manners and customs instead of throwing me into the ranks, as if I had been bought by a kidnapper, a dealer in souls? How did I obtain an interest in this big enterprise they call reality? Why should I have an interest in it? Is it not a voluntary concern? And if I am to be compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I should like to make a remark to him. Is there no director? Whither shall I turn with my complaint?"

 Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition (1843), Voice: Young Man (via fuckyeahexistentialism)

I do love me some Kierkegaard

"Whenever we can trace back a religion to its first beginnings, we find it free from many of the blemishes that offend us in its later phases. The founders of the ancient religions of the world, as far as we can judge, were minds of a high stamp, full of noble aspirations, yearning for truth, devoted to the welfare of their neighbors, examples of purity and unselfishness. What they desired to found upon earth was but seldom realized, and their sayings, if preserved in their original form, offer often a strange contrast to the practice of those who profess to be their disciples."

Max Müller

This was Wikiquote’s ‘Quote of the Day’. Even as a secular humanist, I quite like it

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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people"

Carl Sagan (via atheos)

Hmm. Perhaps we should get off our high horses

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