The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.

Paulo Coelho

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Kurt Vonnegut

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Bertrand Russell

When has faith ever been about feelings?

Camy Tang

If you want to get along, go along.

Sam Rayburn

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

Northrop Frye

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

Ad Reinhardt

Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it

Henry Louis Mencken

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas.

Erica Jong, The narrator (Isador

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Samuel Butler