“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

“Yet if there really is a complete unified theory, it would also presumably determine our actions. And so the theory itself would determine the outcome of our search for it! And why should it determine that we come to the right conclusions from...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“But when the physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“Because you make so little impression, you see. You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move...”

― William Faulkner, Absalom

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