QUOTES

"The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them."

  Zen Proverb

 

"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."

   John Adams

 

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

    Carl Sagan

 

"The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips."

   Heinrich Heine

 

"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."

   Carl von Ossietzky

 

"Freedom is always and exclusively the freedom for the one who thinks differently."

   Rosa Luxemburg

 

"The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot."

   Rolf Hochhuth

 

"Laughter is an affection arising from the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing."

   Immanuel Kant

 

"We are compelled to drive toward knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene.  When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms, the result might be hard to accept"

   Edward O. Wilson

 

"Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man."

   Sophocles

 

"Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life."

   Peter Altenberg

 

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

  Carl Jung (1875-1961)
   Psychologist

 

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