Literature

Oscar Wilde

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

  • • Idea: Critique of people who are materialistic and lack appreciation for true worth.
  • • Lady Windermere’s Fan

• Be yourself; everyone else is already taken

  • Idea: Encouragement of individuality and authenticity.

Dune

• But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.
  • Idea: Personal issues are hard to analyze rationally because of emotional involvement.
• • Jessica from the Artreides

Dostoeivisky

• “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
  • Idea: Happiness is uniform, but unhappiness is unique to each situation.
• Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
  • Idea: The pursuit of happiness is more fulfilling than the state itself.
• To love someone means to see him as God intended.
  • Idea: True love is seeing the best and truest version of someone.

1984

• “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
  • Idea: Power over history means power over society's direction and beliefs.

Tolstoy

• "But women, my boy, they'are the pivot everything turns upon."
  • Idea: Women play a central, influential role in life.

Margaret Atwood

• we lived as usual by ignoring. Ignorance is not the same as ignorance, you have to work on it.

  • Idea: Ignorance can be a deliberate, active process.
• • Handmaid's Tale

• But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, thatis. No plot

  • Idea: People avoid confronting the lack of meaning in their lives.
• • Handmaid's Tale

• "God is love, they said once, but we reversed that, and love, like Heaven, was always around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the paritcular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word made flesh"

  • Idea: People idealize love as an abstract concept, avoiding its real, imperfect forms.
• • Handmaid's Tale

• "Women know that instinctively. Why did they buy so many different cclothes, in the old days? To trick the men into thinking they were several different women. A new one each day."

  • Idea: Commentary on gender roles and the performative aspects of femininity.
• • Handmaid's Tale

Machado de Assis

• “a saudade é isto mesmo; é o passar e repassar das memórias antigas."
  • Idea: Saudade is the constant revisiting of old memories.
• “Matamos o tempo, o tempo nos enterra.”
  • Idea: We try to kill time, but ultimately time defeats us.
• “Em nosso país a vulgaridade é um título, a mediocridade um brasão.”
  • Idea: Critique of how mediocrity and vulgarity are valued in society.
• “Ao vencedor, as batatas.”
  • Idea: The winner takes the spoils, however humble.
• “Deus para a felicidade do home inventou a fe e o amor. O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.”
  • Idea: Faith and love are pure, but can be corrupted by institutions.
• "A vida é cheia de obrigações que a gente cumpre, por mais vontade que tenha de as infringir deslavadamente"
  • Idea: Life is full of duties we fulfill even if we wish to break them.
• “O mais feroz dos animais domésticos é o relógio de parede. Conheço um que já devorou três gerações da minha família.”
  • Idea: Time is relentless and consumes generations.

Ernest Hemingway

• “There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.”
  • Idea: Happiness is found in comfort and beauty.
• “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.”
  • Idea: Acknowledgement of Twain's foundational influence on American literature.

David Foster Wallace

• "Como a maioria dos casamentos, o de Avril com o falecido James Icandenza foi o produto final da conformidade com a concessao"
  • Idea: Many marriages are the result of compromise and conformity.
• Hal Incandenza: I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about"
  • Idea: A humorous critique of the perceived indifference of a higher power.
• Schtit: O atletismo júnior é apenas uma faceta da verdadeira jóia: a guerra interminável da vida contra o eu sem o qual você não pode viver.
  • Idea: Life is a constant struggle with oneself.
• “We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately - the object seemed incidental to this will to give ourselves away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it. A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into. Flight from exactly what? These rooms, blandly filled with excrement and heat? To what purpose?”
  • Idea: Humans have a deep need to devote themselves to something, often as an escape.

Virginia Woolf

• "What does the brain matter compared to the heart"
  • Idea: Emotions and feelings are more important than intellect.

Books

• The fastest in creasing quantity on this planet is the amount of information we are generating
  • Idea: Information is growing at an unprecedented rate.
• Kevin Kelly
• • (Inevitable)

Painters

Edvard Munch

• I don't believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of the man's urge to open his heart.
  • Idea: True art comes from deep emotional necessity.

Music

Belchior

• Tenho comigo pensado deus e' brasileiro e anda do meu lado, por isso nao posso sofrer no ano passado.
  • Idea: Faith in divine protection brings peace about the past.
• Veloso o sol não eh tao bonito para que vem do norte pra viver nao rua
  • Idea: Beauty is subjective and influenced by one's experiences.

Neutral Milk Hotel

• The Earth looks better from a star, That's right above from where you are
  • Idea: Distance gives perspective on life.

Weezer

• We were good as married in my mind But married in my mind is no good
  • Idea: Fantasized relationships don't equate to real ones.
• Rivers Cuomo

Radiohead

• Music, basically, is like mathematics, you know, and you're trying to form patterns, patterns that make you understand what is around you, and patterns that help you get through the next day.
  • Idea: Music helps us make sense of the world through patterns.
• • Thom Yorke

Johnny Mitchel

• All romatnics face the same fate someday, cynical and drunk wondering in some dark cafe.
  • Idea: Romantic idealism often leads to disillusionment.

Cinema

It's kind of a funny story

• "See, that's the part I don't get, Craig. I mean, you're cool, you're smart, you're talented. You have a family that loves you. You know, what I would do just to be you, for just a day? I would... I would do so much. I would... I don't know. I would just... I'd just live. Like it meant something."
  • Idea: People often don't appreciate what they have; others may envy your life.
• He not busy being born, is busy dying
  • Idea: Life is about constant growth; stagnation is decline.

Series

• PRIDE IS NOT THE OPPOSITE OF SHAME, BUT ITS SOURCE. TRUE HUMILITY IS THE ONLY ANTIDOTE TO SHAME
  • Idea: Pride leads to shame; humility is the cure.
• • Uncle Iroh

Business

• empiricism is the key to progress
  • Idea: Progress comes from experimentation and evidence.
• rationalism is the key to sounding smart
  • Idea: Rational arguments can sound impressive but may lack practical value.
• • Sam Altman

Bill Gates

• “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
  • Idea: Success can lead to overconfidence and complacency.
• “Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”
  • Idea: Real life requires action, not just passive consumption.

Philosophy

Heidegger

1. Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
   • Idea: Philosophy loses depth when oversimplified.
2. Everyone is the other and no one is himself
   • Idea: People conform to society, losing individuality.

Other

Dinheiro eh trabalho congelado

• Andre Roncaglia
  • Idea: Money represents stored labor.

Davi Cavalcanti Sena

Women are like capitalism, deep down the only attribute they look for is being able to get things done - Idea: Value is placed on effectiveness and results.

The more you learn about dating, the less romantic it becomes - Idea: Knowledge can diminish the magic of romance.

Se tem gente que aprende gostar de tomar no cu, voce pode aprender a gostar de qualquer coisa - Idea: People can adapt to almost anything.

Buceta mole pica dura tanto bate ate que fura - Idea: Persistence overcomes resistance.

Someone's philosophy gives more information about them rather than philosophy itself - Idea: Personal beliefs reveal more about the person than about objective truth.

• Someone's true says more about them than true itself

Life is like a hike, we spend the whole life grinding, to simply get a view to the water, isn't this pathethic? - Idea: Life's struggles are often for fleeting rewards.

Amar nao eh para amadores - Idea: Love requires maturity and skill.

Life always has problems, when you don’t have problems is because you are already too old. But then your problem is that you are old. - Idea: Problems are a constant in life; their absence signals decline.

Toda mulher tem um pouco de mae e um pouco de puta - Idea: Women embody both nurturing and sensual qualities.