Another selection of recently encountered quotes.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
[Friedrich Nietzsche]

It was neither capitalism nor communism that made possible the progress and pathologies (total war, the unprecedented concentration of global wealth, planetary destruction) of the modern age. It was coal, followed by oil and gas. The meta-trend, the mother narrative, is carbon-fuelled expansion.
[George Monbiot, Guardian, 2 May 2014]
We live as if trapped inside a Sunday supplement: obsessed with fame, fashion and the three dreary staples of middle-class conversation: recipes, renovations and resorts.
[George Monbiot, Guardian, 2 May 2014]
If man were meant to be naked, he would have been born naked.
[Oscar Wilde]
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back everything is different.
[CS Lewis]
Tony Blair is a tragic narcissist with a messiah complex.
[Robert Harris, Guardian, 3 June 2014]
One of them would ask the other a question and either get no answer, or an answer that was another question, or an answer to a different question that hadn’t been asked and had no relation to the one that had.
[Bill James]
All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.
[Eckhart Tolle]
I wish I had your ballocks in my hand
Instead of relics in a reliquarium;
Have them cut off and I will help to carry ‘em.
We’ll have them shrined for you in a hog’s turd.
[Chaucer; “The Pardoner’s Tale”; Canterbury Tales]
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
[Tolkein, Lord of the Rings]