User:Lofty abyss/Quotes

These are some of my favourite quotes.

“ On that day," continued Karellen, "the human race will experience what can only be called a psychological discontinuity. But no permanent harm will be done; the men of that age will be more stable than their grandfathers. We will always have been part of their lives, and when they meet us we will not seem so--strange--as we would do to you. ” — Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End “ The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ” — Bertrand Russell “ Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules. ” — William James “ Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. ” — Erwin Schrödinger “ The essential paradigm of cyberspace is creating partially situated identities out of actual or potential social reality in terms of canonical forms of human contact, thus renormalizing the phenomenology of narrative space and requiring the naturalization of the intersubjective cognitive strategy, and thereby resolving the dialectics of metaphorical thoughts, each problematic to the other, collectively redefining and reifying the paradigm of the parable of the model of the metaphor. ” — http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html “ Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ” — Dr. Seuss “ Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ” — Eleanor Roosevelt “ When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. ” — Robert Pirsig “ He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child. Teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows is wise. Listen to him. ” — Persian Proverb “ This is the Way for men who want to learn my strategy: Do not think dishonestly. The Way is in training. Become aquainted with every art. Know the Ways of all professions. Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use. ” — Miyamoto Musashi “ Everything can collapse. Houses, bodies, and enemies collapse when their rhythm becomes deranged. ” — Miyamoto Musashi “ To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. ” — William Blake “ A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ” — Albert Einstein