„Live with yourself: get to know how poorly furnished you are.“

lecture I: "The Uncertainty of Science"
The Meaning of It All (1999)

Quelle: Watership Down

"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947)
Kontext: Shakespeare starts by assuming that to make yourself powerless is to invite an attack. This does not mean that everyone will turn against you (Kent and the Fool stand by Lear from first to last), but in all probability someone will. If you throw away your weapons, some less scrupulous person will pick them up. If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen. The second blow is, so to speak, part of the act of turning the other cheek. First of all, therefore, there is the vulgar, common-sense moral drawn by the Fool: "Don't relinquish power, don't give away your lands." But there is also another moral. Shakespeare never utters it in so many words, and it does not very much matter whether he was fully aware of it. It is contained in the story, which, after all, he made up, or altered to suit his purposes. It is: "Give away your lands if you want to, but don't expect to gain happiness by doing so. Probably you won't gain happiness. If you live for others, you must live for others, and not as a roundabout way of getting an advantage for yourself."

Saying 73

Letter to his brother Jeff from Guadalcanal (28 January 1943); p. 27
To Reach Eternity (1989)
Kontext: In spite of all the training you get and precautions you take to keep yourself alive, it's largely a matter of luck that decided whether or not you get killed. It doesn't make any difference who you are, how tough you are, how nice a guy you might be, or how much you may know, if you happen to be at a certain spot at a certain time, you get it. I've seen guys out of one hole to a better one and get it the next minute, whereas if they'd stayed still they wouldn't have been touched. I've seen guys decide to stay in a hole instead of moving and get it. I've seen guys move and watch the hole they were in get blown up a minute later. And I've seen guys stay and watch the place to which they had intended to move get blown up. It's all luck.

Quelle: Dreamfever

Quelle: After the Quake

Quelle: The Book of Disquiet

Concerning the apparent absurdities of quantum behavior.
chapter 6, “Probability and Uncertainty — the Quantum Mechanical View of Nature,” p. 129
The Character of Physical Law (1965)

Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)

Quelle: Non-fiction, Created equal: Why gay rights matter to America (1994), p.142

Video game commentary, SuperHOT prototype (September 15, 2013)

Quelle: The Circle

Quelle: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)

Quelle: Fight Club

Quelle: Tuesdays with Morrie