Wisdom should be cherished as a means of traveling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession. -Bia of Priene (c.570 BC, one of the seven sages of ancient Greece
The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. -J.J. Van der Leeum
All effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. - Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827, French astronomer and mathematician)
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes. -Marcel Proust (1871-1922, French novelist)
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. - Black Elk (1863-1950)
The world is single and it came into being from the center outwards. -Joannes Stobaeus (5th century AD Greek anthologist)
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us of the wave moving by. -R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983 American inventor, poet, mathematician, and futurist)
A whole is that which has a beginning, middle and an end. -Aristotle
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is a reaction, both are transformed. -Carl Jung
[An arch is] two weaknesses which together make a strength. -Leonardo da Vinci
Force without wisdom fall of its own weight. -Horace (65 BC, Roman poet and satirist)
If you understand the invisible, look carefully at the visible. -Talmud
It is like the case where I interpret what is not limited as a length that reaches beyond every length? -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
When we do philosophy we are like savages, primitive people who hear the expressions of civilized men, put false interpretation on them, and the draw the queerest conclusions from it. -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Anxiety is the necessary condition of human happiness since happiness is never completely achieved and never permanently kept. -Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
Providence is the immovable and simple form of all things which come into being, while Fate is the moving connection and temporal order of all things which the divine simplicity has decided to bring into being. -Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
I know a place where no one's lost / I know a place where no one cries / Crying at all is not allowed / Here in my castle on the cloud. -Les Miserables
I had a dream my life would be / So different from this hell I'm living / So different now from what is seemed / Now life has killed / The dream I dream -Les Miserables
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste; Wings, and no eyes, figure unheady haste. And therefore is Love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. -Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. -Polonius in Hamlet
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