Quotes – What I Think I Know

In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught

May 6, 2021 Nate

— Baba Dioum, a Senegalese forest ranger as quoted in book “A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters”

“García Lorca sought the sharp experience of life that is realized only by a heightened awareness of our own mortality.”

April 13, 2021 Nate

— Alex Green

“… He said the best art reminds us that we are all living “on the rim of the well.”

It is not the world as it should be which puts an end to the real world, but the world as it is

March 22, 2021 Nate

— Jean Baudrillard

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

March 17, 2021 Nate

— Henry James

Mourning is the price we pay for having the courage to love others

March 15, 2021 Nate

— From Book “A Matter of Love and Life”

A person who knows little likes to talk, and one who knows much mostly keeps silent. This is because a person who knows little thinks that everything he knows is important, and wants to tell everyone. A person who knows much also knows that there is much more he doesn’t know. That’s why he speaks only when it is necessary to speak, and when he is not asked questions, he keeps his silence

January 25, 2021 Nate

— Jean Jacques Rousseau