Quote of the day

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"If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans."---Brian Swimme

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"A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change."---Richard Rorty

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“We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.”— Henri Bergson

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"There is no leader, there is no teacher, there is nobody to tell you what to do. You are alone in this mad brutal world."— Krishnamurti

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“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”― Charles Fort, Lo!

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"How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference!"----G.K. Chesterton

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“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.”–Bertrand Russell

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"One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment." ~Joseph Campbell

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“Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.”
― Ryōkan

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"The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars." - Arthur C. Clarke

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"Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself. " ~E.E. Cummings