The harmony of natural law] reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe- a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble."
Albert Einstein
Four stages of acceptance:
(i) this is worthless nonsense;
(ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
(iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
(iv) I always said so.
Journal of Genetics Vol. 58, page 464 (1963).
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
-- curmudgeon H.L. Mencken
I like earth....It's where I keep all my stuff.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt within the heart.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller T
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese (1908 – 1950
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
Circumstance does not make the man, it reveals him to himself
From As a Man Thinketh...James Allen
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
R. D. Laing
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Macbeth, 5. 5
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost
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