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All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are read more
All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted read more
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: read more
Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
