Quotes

One of the most tragic things I know about
human nature is that all of us tend to put
off living. We are all dreaming of some
magical rose garden over the horizon instead
of enjoying the roses that are blooming
outside our windows today.
– Dale Carnegie

I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful
… an endless prospect of magic and wonder.
– Ansel Adams

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
– Robert A. Heinlein

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced

When you speak, It’s silent
When you’re silent, It speaks

And slowly your thoughts will come to silence
And in that silence, you suddenly begin to see the world as it is
You don’t see any past
And you don’t see any future
You see that we live in an eternal now
There’s only the eternal now
– Alan Watts/Frank Herbert/Soren Kierkegaard

Any excuse will serve a tyrant
– Aesop

I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.
– W. C. Fields

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
– James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States,
and there has always been. The strain of
anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread
winding its way through our political and cultural
life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy
means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
– Isaac Asimov

But has any little atom,
While a-sittin’ and a-splittin’,
Ever stopped to think or CARE
That E = m c**2 ?
– Unknown

The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools,
colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to
special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox
to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding
a more bounteous harvest of gobbledegook than the rest
of the world put together.
– Sir Peter Medawar