Quotes
“We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.”
Emerson, Essays
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Marcus Aureilus Antoninus (121-180), Roman Emperor
“The only real moment is now. The future can only be imagined.”
St. Augustine
“Chance favors the prepared mind”
Louis Pasteur
“Can you fly, Bobby?”
Crime boss Clarence Boddicker – Robocop
“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.”
Benjamin Whorf, Linguist.
“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.”
Voltaire.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration…”
Frank Herbert, Dune (The Bene Gesserit Litany of Fear)
“Games don’t affect people. If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”
Simpsons
“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley