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It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty.
Francis Bacon English philosopher and statesman 1561 - 1626

Francis Bacon
1561 - 1626
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.
George Eliot English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist 1819 - 1880

George Eliot
1819 - 1880
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government programme.
Milton Friedman American economist and statistician 1912 - 2006

Milton Friedman
1912 - 2006
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell British writer and journalist 1903 - 1950

George Orwell
1903 - 1950
If my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
Alan Watts British American author and lecturer 1915 - 1973

Alan Watts
1915 - 1973
A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth!
Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author born 1941

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins
born 1941
The God Delusion
Human beings are good at many things, but thinking about our species as a whole is not one of our strong points.
David Attenborough British broadcaster and naturalist born 1926

David Attenborough
born 1926
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising it.
Vincent van Gogh Dutch painter 1853 - 1890

Vincent van Gogh
1853 - 1890
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature sures the disease.
Ben Jonson English playwright, poet, and actor 1572 - 1637

Often attributed to Voltaire

Ben Jonson
1572 - 1637
Often attributed to Voltaire
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon English philosopher and statesman 1561 - 1626

Francis Bacon
1561 - 1626
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Kurt Vonnegut American author 1922 - 2007

Kurt Vonnegut
1922 - 2007
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon English philosopher and statesman 1561 - 1626

Francis Bacon
1561 - 1626
civilisation is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past.
Cyril Connolly British author 1903 - 1974

Cyril Connolly
1903 - 1974
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
Leonardo da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
Jacob Bronowski Polish-born British mathematician 1908 - 1974

Jacob Bronowski
1908 - 1974
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Douglas Adams British science fiction writer and humorist 1952 - 2001

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘‘Fit the Fifth’’ (radio program) (1978)

Douglas Adams
1952 - 2001
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘‘Fit the Fifth’’ (radio program) (1978)
While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society 1902 - 1994

Karl Popper
1902 - 1994
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts British American author and lecturer 1915 - 1973

Watts, A. (1966). The book; on the taboo against knowing who you are. New York: Pantheon Books.

Alan Watts
1915 - 1973
Watts, A. (1966). The book; on the taboo against knowing who you are. New York: Pantheon Books.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher 1803 - 1882

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 - 1882

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