More Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.
To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.
