Quotes to inspire and reflect

You are the most beautiful girl that has ever lived, and it is worth dying to have kissed you.

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it ? three minutes; to collect the data in it ? all my life

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.

I’d like to be the person I could have been but never was.

I have lost the half of myself ? a soul for which mine was made.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the Centre.

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. Thomas A.

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

Art is science made clear.

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words.