True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. - Socrates
I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song. - Jason Mraz
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths. - Will Durant
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. - Herman Melville
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? - Edgar Allan Poe
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. - Immanuel Kant
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. - Socrates
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak. - Socrates
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