October 2006

Joseph Campbell Quotations

-We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and [...]

Euripides Quotations

-Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good. -Authority is never without hate. -The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. -The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. -Slight not what’s near, while aiming at what’s far. -Talk sense [...]

Thomas Merton Quotations

-A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. -The least of learning is done in the classrooms. -The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer [...]

Bertrand Russell Quotations

-Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. -Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. -Most men would rather die, than think. Many do. -Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a [...]

Stephen Hawking Quotations

-Common sense is just another name for the prejudices we’ve been taught all our lives. -Not only does God play dice with the Universe – he sometimes casts them where they can’t be seen. (see Albert Einstein) -What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe…Why does [...]

R. Buckminster Fuller Quotations

-All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniused by grownups. (See Einstein) -Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. -Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. -Everything you’ve learned [...]

Albert Einstein Quotations

-A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and [...]

Mahatma Gandhi Quotations

-The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold myself to be incapable of hating any being on earth. By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased for over forty years to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. [...]

Benjamin Spock

-A child loves his play, not because it’s easy, but because it’s hard. -What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? Benjamin Spock