Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Castaways

All is flux. Nothing stays still.- Heraclitus

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.- Isaac Newton
Rational consciousness...is only one special kind of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.- William James
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?- Lewis Carroll







And as she looked about, she did behold, / How over that same door was likewise writ, / Be bold, be bold, be bold, and everywhere, Be Bold.- Edmund Spenser

My life is a hesitation before birth.- Franz Kafka




Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to always and forever explaining things to them.- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the way we make use of them; a man may live very long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.- Michel de Montaigne


Alles Vergangliche / Ist nur ein Gleichnis *All that is transitory / Is only an image-Johanne Wolfgang Van Goethe


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