“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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“It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done by a machine.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Two centuries ago England was devastated by the plague; cleanliness and common sense were enough to free us from its ravages. One century since, small-pox was almost as great a scourge; science, though working empirically, and almost in the dark,...”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians”

― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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