Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

Klaus Fuchs

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

Nigel Barker

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Leo Tolstoy

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

George Orwell

It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.

Oscar Wilde

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Jefferson

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

Sebastian Vettel

...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...

John Geddes

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Archibald McLeish

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

Al Alvarez

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The downside of spiritual education is the buildup of the vanity of 'I know' and the devaluation of people who are 'not spiritual'. Therefore it is important as a foundation to spiritual training and education to learn how consciousness manifests as the ego and its mechanisms.

David R. Hawkins