Here is the second selection of quotations and sayings that I have collected over the years and found inspiring, intriguing or useful.
La route est dure, mais je suis forte.
(The road is hard, but I am strong)
(Words to theme of the TV adaptation of Sartre’s ‘Roads to Freedom’)
All perfection in this life is accompanied by a measure of imperfection, and all our knowledge contains an element of obscurity.
[Thomas a Kempis]
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
[Francis Bacon]
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
[J S Mill]
All discord is harmony not understood.
[Pope]
One never possesses a metaphysical belief but is possessed by it.
[Jung]
They are ill discoverers who think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.
[Francis Bacon]
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
[Samuel Butler]
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
[Holmes]
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
[Ingersoll]
In nature’s infinite book of secrecy, a little can I read.
[Shakespeare]
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
[Heisenberg]
Naught may endure but mutability.
[Shelley]
Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the Universe.
[Jung]
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
[Tennyson]
No one key can open every lock.
[K Ward]
Men have become the tools of their tools.
[Henry Thoreau]
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
[Indian Proverb]
God is subtle, but not malicious.
[Einstein]
He who understands my music is saved.
(Beethoven)
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