“Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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“My mind . . . rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four

“the history of science . . . teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious and supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it’s also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

“we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning—for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.”

― Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“O dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can tickle where she wounds!”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

“it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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