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We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organised assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Carl Sagan American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author 1934 - 1996

Cosmos (1980)

Carl Sagan
1934 - 1996
Cosmos (1980)
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can’t be cured.
Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist and author 1860 - 1904

Anton Chekhov
1860 - 1904
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
14th Dalai Lama 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibetans born 1935

14th Dalai Lama
born 1935
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
Beyond the cognitive understanding of experience, there is the epistemology of caring. We know things most immediately and profoundly through empathetic feeling.
Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall

Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation

Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall
Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation
But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
Joseph Butler English bishop and philosopher 1692 - 1752

Joseph Butler
1692 - 1752
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher c. 425 - 348 BC

Plato
c. 425 - 348 BC
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer English philosopher and political theorist 1820 - 1903

Herbert Spencer
1820 - 1903
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr. American Baptist minister and civil rights leader 1929 - 1968

Strength to Love (1963), ch. 7

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929 - 1968
Strength to Love (1963), ch. 7
I think that tastes, odours, colours, and so on... reside only in the consciousness. Hence, if the living creature were removed, all these qualities would be wiped away and annihilated.
Galileo Galilei Italian polymath 1564 - 1642

Galileo Galilei
1564 - 1642
For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have.
W. H. Auden British-American poet 1907 - 1973

September 1, 1939

W. H. Auden
1907 - 1973
September 1, 1939
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
Gore Vidal American writer 1925 - 2012

Gore Vidal
1925 - 2012
There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.
W. H. Auden British-American poet 1907 - 1973

W. H. Auden
1907 - 1973
It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire French writer, historian and philosopher 1694 - 1778

Voltaire
1694 - 1778
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones 1908 - 1980

Franklin P. Jones
1908 - 1980
The point arrives, then, when it is clearly understood that all ones intentional acts - desires, ideals, stratagems - are in vain.
Alan Watts British American author and lecturer 1915 - 1973

Watts, A. (1957). The way of Zen. New York: Pantheon.

Alan Watts
1915 - 1973
Watts, A. (1957). The way of Zen. New York: Pantheon.
Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me ‘How good, how good does it feel to be free?’ And I answer them most mysteriously ‘Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?’
Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter born 1941

Lyric : Ballad In Plain D

Bob Dylan
born 1941
Lyric : Ballad In Plain D
A lie can be half-way around the world before truth has got his boots on.
James Callaghan Former prime minister of the United Kingdom 1912 - 2005

James Callaghan
1912 - 2005
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death.
Leonardo da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

Leonardo da Vinci
1452 - 1519
I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgement until the evidence is in.
Carl Sagan American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author 1934 - 1996

The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)

Carl Sagan
1934 - 1996
The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
When you’re in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
Samuel Fuller American screenwriter, actor and film director 1912 - 1997

Samuel Fuller
1912 - 1997
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

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