Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.

Genius is independent of situation.

Charles Churchill

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

Libba Bray

Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

Mitt Romney

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Voltaire

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Mason Cooley

If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Art Spiegelman

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

Warren Farrell

I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Chapt

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

Blaise Pascal