Quotes

When I was a boy I delivered the morning paper. I used some of the money I made to create a coin collection. I'm much older now and I no longer collect coins. I'm still a collector, but now I collect wisdom. Some of it is priceless and yet, paradoxically, it has no price tag.

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"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." —Sir James Jeans

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." —Albert Einstein

"You taught me, baby, how the few who win, acquire what their hearts' desire. It ain't practice, it ain't skill. They'll help, but not as much as wanting will."
—from the Broadway production Chess

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
 —T.S.Eliot, The Waste Land

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."
—Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"In the book that is my memory, on the first page of that chapter that is the day I met you, appear the words 'Here begins a new life' ”.
—Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova

"We must rise above the millieu into which we were born. Sometimes, doing that requires more strength than we can summon at that moment. Nevertheless, we must try to always remember that becoming a better person is our ultimate task. It is a task we may choose to put off today, to forget about tomorrow, but it is a task that will always await us and which circumstance will eventually force us to confront."
—VirtualWayne

"We aren’t supposed to understand all of reality. Quantum physics tells us there are some things in our reality that are unknowable. They’re unknowable not because we don’t have the right instruments or because our knowledge is insufficient. They’re unknowable in principle. They’re unknowable because the Universe won’t let us have some kinds of information. They’re unknowable because that is the way our Universe is structured. Some kinds of knowledge, some kinds of information, really are, and always will be, beyond our grasp."
—VirtualWayne

"Human beings are biological robots – biobots. We believe a certain way and behave a certain way because we have been programmed to believe and behave that way. If you believe God is named Jehovah, it is because you have been programmed to believe that. If you believe God is named Allah, it is because you have been programmed to believe that. Biobots are extremely versatile and can be programmed and reprogrammed in an infinite variety of ways."
—VirtualWayne

Life would be no better than candlelight
tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were
not touched by what has been, to issues of
longing and constancy. 
—George Eliot, Middlemarch

"Everyone is at different stages of consciousness. There is a certain stage you reach where your intent is to only speak your truth, not convince others of it. You begin to realize that everyone has their own path. In other words, you cannot convince a baby to walk when it is at the stage of crawling. To convince them of that truth is irrelevant."
—Unknown

“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”
—Marcel Proust

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
—Marcel Proust

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."
―Friedrich Nietzsche

"So we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too –
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out –
And take upon 's the mystery of things
As if we were God's spies...”
—William Shakespeare

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
―Aeschylus