What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

No one knows what he can to do until he tries.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the foods that make you fat-the carbohydrates.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.