Bradley Denton Quotes

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

The wise men were all fools, what to do?

The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

I tend to worry about each "emergency" or unforeseen complication on all my projects. But there are so many! All of life is unforeseen! So I am learning that is the cycle of life - everything is cyclical and temporary and to get ok with that someday could be my greatest achievement.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them.

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

All wisdom ends in paradox.

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.