The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehens — Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ♥ 29 Information is not knowledge. ♥ 28 Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. ♥ 33 We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand. ♥ 28

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ‘The Leningrad Notebooks’ (c .1735–50) in T. Besterman (ed.) Voltaire’s Notebook (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455 Voltaire We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one. Voltaire War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell In quiet places, reason abounds. Adlai Stevenson