Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans! – Robert E. Lee.
Everything, however complicated – breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests – is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn’t offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws
Everything, however complicated – breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests – is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn’t offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws. (Martin Rees)
I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world– an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery
I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world– an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery (Craig Thompson, Blankets)
I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us
I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us. (John Green)
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written (Italo Calvino)
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there (George Bernard Shaw)
It is rarely possible to learn yourself fully
It is rarely possible to learn yourself fully (Debasish Mridha)
Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst
Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst (Thomas Hardy)
Look. I know what I believe. It’s in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don’t know everything. And since we don’t know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else
Look. I know what I believe. It’s in my soul. But I constantly tell our people: you should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we don’t know everything. And since we don’t know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else (Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story)
To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not? – Ralph Waldo Emerson