Giants Quote by Robert Anton Wilson Download Open image “A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants” — Robert Anton Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Giants Might Thinking Windmills
“It’s discouraging when, in the midst of a Quixotic life, you realize that the windmill is kicking your ass.” — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
If you think about Don Quixote, Don Quixote is this guy who wants to live as if he was in a medieval chivalric romance, when actually he lives in sixteenth-century Spain, which is already going through secularization, industrialization, modernization. He goes out to kill a giant, and instead he collides with this huge windmill and injures himself and also damages… — Elif Batuman Copy Share
Word of the day is 'Ultracrepidarian' - someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. — Muniir Zero Copy Share Image
“At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, "Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share
“Don't be ridiculous, man," said Ridcully, "there's no such thing as dwarf smuggling." "Yeah? Then what's that you've got there?" "I'm a giant," said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I view members of the elite with an almost primal scorn—recently, an acquaintance used the word “confabulate” in a sentence, and I just… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful.… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to… — Arthur Bloch Copy Share Image
And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent,… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
We were at a Giants game, and my manager told me, 'Sadie, you have an audition for a show called 'Stranger Things,'' and I… — Sadie Sink Copy Share Image
It's like when we get the transformer movies. It was all a bunch of smaller robot pieces and then you're on set, and you're… — Gregory Nicotero Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess… — Rachael Bermingham Copy Share Image
