Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man.

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, or what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost, with no means of escape. Then I marvel that so wretched a state does not drive people to despair.

Blaise Pascal

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Ruth Hubbard

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Joseph Brodsky

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Margaret Thatcher

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.

Anne Lamott

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Carolyn Heilbrun

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Abraham Lincoln

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Dwight D Eisenhower

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Terry Pratchett

I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.

Billy Corgan

Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising.

Jeff I. Richards

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus