“Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic.”
| — | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
_Elective Affinities_ [1809] |
“If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven.”
| — | Dante Alighieri 1265-1321, The Divine Comedy, Inferno XV, l.55 |
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts.
We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple
because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto of every
natural philosopher should be, “Seek simplicity and distrust it.”
| — | Alfred North Whitehead, _The Concept of Nature_ |
“Do not let too strong a light come into your bedroom. There are in a beauty a great many things which are enhanced by being seen only in a half-light.”
| — | Ovid (43 BC – 18 AD) |
“It is by reading novels, stories, and myths that we come to understand the ideas that govern the world in which we live; it is fiction that gives us access to the truths kept veiled by our families, our schools, and our society; it is the art of the novel that allows us to ask who we really are.”
| — | Orhan Pamuk (1952- ) |
