“Great doubts
deep wisdom…
Small doubts
little wisdom.”
| — | Chinese Proverb |
“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid
that while you weren’t reading,
the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river;
while you went on living, it went on living too,
and like a river moved on and moved away.
No one has stepped twice into the same river.
But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
| — | Marina Tsvetaeva |
“There is one story and one story only
That will prove worth your telling,
Whether are learned bard or gifted child;
To it all lines or lesser gauds belong
That startle with their shining
Such common stories as they stray into.”
| — | Robert Graves |
“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).”
| — | Robert Graves |
“WHEN a dream is born in you
With a sudden clamorous pain,
When you know the dream is true
And lovely, with no flaw nor strain,
O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch
You’ll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.”
| — | Robert Graves |
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
| — | Jean Paul Sartre |
“Hell is other people.”
| — | Jean Paul Sartre |
“Human life begins on the far side of despair.”
| — | Jean Paul Sartre |
“Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!”
| — | Samuel Beckett |
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
| — | Albert Einstein |
“As punishment for my contempt for authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.”
| — | Albert Einstein |
“As far as the laws of mathematics
Refer to reality,
They are not certain;
As far as they are certain,
They do not refer to reality.”
| — | Albert Einstein |
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.”
| — | Albert Einstein |
“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”
| — | Albert Einstein |
“All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.”
| — | Arthur C. Clarke |
“All things are in the universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us: and in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.”
| — | Giordano Bruno |
