Aesop Quotes

For me, there is only love and fear.

If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire

I like that the sight of me can make people happy. That's nice innit? I like that people like my music. I like that you get perks sometimes. Sometimes people treat you better, but through that there's the opposite as well.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.

Perhaps love is essential because it's unnecessary.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.