How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?

We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

De omnibus dubitandum

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Viktor Frankl the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think something he didn't want to think

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

To be part of a community feels really good - to be among people who have similar feelings and want to share thoughts. It's a nice feeling.

The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.