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“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
-Mark Twain
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
-Mark Twain
“The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”
-Carl Jung
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
-Nikos Kazantzakis’ Epitath
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
-Charles Bukowski
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
-Albert Einstein
“As he aged, he pursued his scientific inquiries not just to serve his art but out of a joyful instinct to fathom the profound beauties of creation.”
-Walter Isaacson, Leonardo Da Vinci
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
-Friederich Nietzsche
“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”
-Richard Feynman
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it”
-Oscar Wilde
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
-Mark Twain
“Nietzsche thinks a human life triumphant just insofar as it escapes from inherited descriptions of the contingencies of its existence and finds new descriptions.”
-Richard Rorty
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
-Gustave Flaubert
“Sutdy hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible.”
-Richard Feynman
“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.”
-Isaac Newton
“Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn’t happen”
-Malcolm Gladwell
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
-Carl Jung
“You can never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
-Buckminster Fuller
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists”
-Eric Hoffer
“It is not the strongest of species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
-Charles Darwin
“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”
-Stephen Hawking
“The fullness of life and the violence of death are equally terrible in Dionysus. The Greek endured this reality in its total dimensions and worshipped it as divine.”
-Walter Otto
“The madness which is called Dionysus is no sickness, no debility in life, but a companion of life at its healthiest. It is the tumult which erupts from its innermost recesses when they mature and force their way to the surface. It is the madness inherent in the womb of the mother. This attends all moments of creation, constantly changes ordered existence into chaos, and ushers in primal salvation and primal pain—and in both, the primal wildness of being.”
-Water Otto
“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”
-Winston Churchill
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves.”
-Carl Jung
“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.“
-Werner Heisenberg
“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.”
-Douglas Hofstadter
“In the wake of a human being’s death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them… Though the primary brain has been sclipsed , there is, in those who remain… a collective corona that still glows.”
-Douglas Hofstadter
