Once more unto this month’s collection of quotes.
Nudity is only taboo because we make it so. Let’s normalise it and break free from societal norms.
[unknown]
The only time of learning is from age nine to sixteen; afterwards, Cupid begins to tyrannise, jealousies, marriage and worldly cares intertwine with studies. It is a mistake to keep boys at their books at an age more proper for matrimony, when their minds chiefly run on propagating their race. Nature will be nature at 18+. At this age their information is like writing on greasy parchment: it will not stick or leave an imprint. Trying to educate boys over eighteen is like painting anew on an old picture: the colours will not be imbibed.
[John Aubrey, quoted un Ruth Scurr, John Aubrey: My Own Life]
I’m at that age where my mind still thinks I’m 29, my humour suggests I’m 12, while my body mostly keeps asking if I’m sure I’m not dead yet.
[unknown]
Since Einstein the future of time has become even more precarious.
[Prof. Janna Levin]
There is no objective time – past, present and future are all a matter of your own perspective.
[Dr Kate Mack]
Calories (noun): Tiny creatures that inhabit your closet and sew your clothes a little bit tighter every night.
[unknown]
I feel like a lot of my problems would be solved if I had a dragon.
[unknown]
The truth has no defence against a fool determined to believe a lie.
[Mark Twain]
Don’t call it getting undressed. Call it returning to factory settings.
[unknown]
Every time you open a book and read, a tree smiles, knowing there’s life after death.
[unknown]
Though many desire these treasures, none enter but he who knows the key and how to use it.
[Anthony Powell; Temporary Kings]
Reason is given to all men, but all men do not know how to use it. Liberty is offered to each one of us, but few learn to be free. Such gifts are, in any case, a right to be earned, not a privilege for the shiftless.
[Anthony Powell; The Kindly Ones]
We’re trained in obedience and rule-following from a very young age. We need equivalent practice in breaking rules, in recognizing when a rule or law is unjust and needs to be broken, and in acting in accord with that recognition. We need this all the time, but damn if we don’t need it especially now. One day, possibly soon, we will be called on to break a big law in the name of justice and rationality. Be ready.
[Mandy Brown]
There are no new ideas, just new ways of giving those ideas we cherish breath and power in our own living.
[Audre Lorde]