Quotes

The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived. - Kurt Gödel

For a superficial observer, scientific truth is beyond the possibility of doubt; the logic of science is infallible, and if the scientists are sometimes mistaken, this is only from their mistaking its rule. - Henri Poincaré

Creative people are often considered eccentric. Everyone is creative and eccentric. We are all unique. But the vast majority are afraid to let it out. It's more accurate to describe so-called creative, eccentric people as simply less inhibited. - John T. Reed

Pursuit of money, fame, and status generally does not produce a bumper crop of friends and friendly relatives in old age. Indeed, those goals are selfish and selfishness is not a way to make friends. Furthermore, money, fame, and status tend to attract false friends which may get in the way of your acquiring real ones. - John T. Reed

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. - G.K. Chesterton

"human vocation is a mystical vocation that has to be realized following a three stage way, which comprehends necessarily moral transformation, intellectual research and final perfection in the identity with the absolute reality. This paradigm is universal, because it can be retraced in every tradition." - Pico della Mirandola

Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak. - Werner Heisenberg

‎'First remove murder from the world, and then capital punishment ought to follow.' - Schopenhauer

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

There is something mysterious and whole, which existed before heaven and earth. Silent, formless, complete, and never changing. Living eternally everywhere in perfection, it is the mother of all things. I do not know its name; I call it the Way.” - Lao Zi

"These men have taken a supreme vow of celibacy like their fathers and their fathers before them." - Hot Shots Part Deux