| Quotes & Thoughts |
| This is a collection of some of my favorite quotes. Some of them I hold as true, others I just find intriguing. Feel free to email me with some of your favorites! I will add more as I have the time. |
| "Until it is proven, God is a theory, and the burden of proof of a theory is on those positing the theory-not on the world to disprove the theory." ~Harold A. Meyer, III |
| "Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ~Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "Was it for this my life I sought? Maybe so, maybe not." ~Trey Anastasio of Phish |
| "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." ~Thomas Jefferson |
| "In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true, or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits." ~John C. Lilly |
| "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." ~Voltaire, a.k.a. Francois Marie Arouet |
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| "Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not." ~Phlogiston Verdigris |
| "America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America?" ~Norman Mailer |
| "I like your approach, now let's see your departure." ~Unknown |
| "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English--up to fifty words used in correct context--no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." ~Carl Sagan (1934-1996) |
| "It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." ~W.E. Henley (1849-1903), from Invictus |
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| "Hell is other people." ~Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| "A little she strove, and much repented, and whispering, 'I'll ne'er consent' - consented." ~Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| "No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." ~Henry Brooks Adams, historian (1838-1918) |
| philomath (fil-uh-math) noun A lover of learning. |
| "God made Man to his image and likeness, and Man, being a gentleman, returned the compliment." ~Voltaire |
| "You must be either the master or the servant, the hammer or the anvil." ~Goethe |
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| "Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may be good at Greek and good at sport, and be wildly popular. But try all three and you're a mountebank. Nothing arouses suspicion quicker than genuine, all-round proficiency." ~Francis Crawford of Lymond |
| "The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." ~Thomas Huxley |
| The Origin of "4:20" ? "Although everything was spinning perilously, I tried to start in the right direction and hack my way ahead. My route must have been far from straight, for it seemed hours before I was free of the mirage-plant's pervasive influence. Gradually the dancing lights began to disappear, and the shimmering spectral scenery began to assume the aspect of solidity. When I did get wholly clear I looked at my watch and was astonished to find the time was only 4:20. Though eternities had seemed to pass, the whole experience could have consumed little more than a half-hour." ~H.P. Lovecraft |