That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886
1830 - 1886
Entire Collection
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
1934 - 1996
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
Alan Turing 1912 - 1954
1912 - 1954
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier...But the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963
1917 - 1963
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890
1853 - 1890
Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. And time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
Ray Cummings wrote 'Time is what keeps everything from happening at once' in 'The Girl in the Golden Atom' (1919); the line about space was added later, anonymously. Quote Investigator, Time Is What Keeps Everything From Happening At Once (2019)
Ray Cummings wrote 'Time is what keeps everything from happening at once' in 'The Girl in the Golden Atom' (1919); the line about space was added later, anonymously.
Quote Investigator, Time Is What Keeps Everything From Happening At Once (2019)
I am the president. You cannot grab me like that
Saddam Hussein 1937 - 2006
1937 - 2006
Nobody loves a fairy when she’s forty.
Song title : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Song title : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
Roald Dahl 1916 - 1990
1916 - 1990
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Ivan Illich 1926 - 2002
1926 - 2002
It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.
Karl Popper 1902 - 1994
1902 - 1994
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley 1825 - 1895
1825 - 1895
Some modern philosophers have gone so far as to say that words should never be confronted with facts but should live in a pure, autonomous world where they are compared only with other words. When you say, ‘the cat is a carnivorous animal,’ you do not mean that actual cats eat actual meat, but only that in zoology books the cat is classified among carnivora. These authors tell us that the attempt to confront language with fact is ‘metaphysics’ and is on this ground to be condemned. This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
Bertrand Russell 1872 - 1970
My Philosophical Development (1959) On the ordinary-language philosophers at Oxford.
1872 - 1970
My Philosophical Development (1959)
On the ordinary-language philosophers at Oxford.
Women are like tricks by slight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.
William Congreve 1670 - 1729
1670 - 1729
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
1564 - 1642
Attributed
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding 1707 - 1754
1707 - 1754
Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
Georges Braque 1882 - 1963
1882 - 1963
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Voltaire 1694 - 1778
1694 - 1778
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.
1916 - 1970
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1974) p. 30
All bodies together, and each by itself, give off to the surrounding air an infinite number of images which are all-pervading and each complete, each conveying the nature, colour and form of the body which produces it.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas Chamfort 1741 - 1794
1741 - 1794
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896 - 1940
1896 - 1940
At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end, The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend; Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there’s never smoke without fire. Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye. For the clear voice suddenly singing, high up on the cement wall, The scent of the elder bushes, the sporting prints in the hall, The croquet matches in summer, the handshake, the cough, the kiss, There is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this.
1907 - 1973
The secret is out
Have you ever travelled, beyond all mere metaphors, to the Mountain of Shame and stayed for a thousand years. I do not recommend it.
Sam Harris born 1967
Regarding an experience using psychedelic drugs : Harris, S. (2014). Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. Bantam Press.
born 1967
Regarding an experience using psychedelic drugs : Harris, S. (2014). Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. Bantam Press.