| | Pascal: | ce n’est pas dans Montaigne, mais dans moi, que je trouve tout ce que | j’y vois-- | | sometimes angels must rush in where fools fail to tread | | Einstein: | I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals Himself | in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings. | | Jonathan Edwards: | The degree to which our experience is productive of practice | shows the degree to which our experience is spiritual or divine. | | Montaigne: | Man is quite insane. He cannot make a mite, but creates gods by the dozens. | | Spinoza: | All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. | | Emerson: | We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. | | Ebert: | I will be thin when I die. When Gallo dies, he will always be the director of brown bunny | | Weil, Simone: | To lower oneself is to rise in the domain of moral gravity. Moral gravity makes us fall towards the heights. | | Ludovico Ariosto: | Nature made him and then broke the mold. | | Brooks, Mel: | How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right? | | Lovelace, Ada: | We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. | | Jacob wrestling with the angel humbly *wants* defeat by a higher power than his ego; that is the blessing of access to a fully aware and awake self. | | Francis Bacon: | A lie faces god and shrinks from man | | from a random mystery show: | 'alibis. no innocent person ever has an alibi' | | forgot who: | Oaths are the fossils of piety | | da vinci: | one has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all. | | Paul Tillich: | Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. |