...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
A human being is a part of a 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.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward
~ Vernon Law
In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty; but you can get everything dirty without gettting anything clean.
- Unknown
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognise the ability that he has.
- Confucius
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream
- Malcolm Muggeridges
There's value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God, we can start anew.
- Thomas Edison
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