A dead shepherd brought tremendous chords from hell And bad the sheep carouse. Or so they said. Children in love with them brought early flowers And scattered them about, no two alike.

The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

Matthew Simpson

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Karl Menninger

What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their beliefs. The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is a self-congratulatory delusion.

Michael Crichton, The Lost World

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Friedrich Schiller

Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.

Will Friedle

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Doug Coupland

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Mark Twain

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Isabelle Adjani

this is the rough part, okay? so just stay tuned for the good part. i promise it'll come soon.

John Green

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

Iris Murdoch

What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?

Gertrude Stein