Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Miscellaneous


Delphi, Greece - 2007



To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson



There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski



When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne



The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992



Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy


If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Bertrand Russell



There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein



Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

A. Lawrence Lowell