Quotes & Sayings 3

Here is the third (of four) selection of quotations and sayings that I have collected over the years and have found inspiring, intriguing or helpful.

Certitude is the child of custom - not reason.
[Balfour]

Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself.
[Plato]

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
[Lichtenberg]

A very popular error - having the courage of one’s convictions: rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions.
[Neitzshe]

What is a miracle? The natural law of a unique event.
[Rosenstock - Huessy]

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
[Burbank]

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
[Nietzshe]

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster - it is an opportunity.
[Whitehead]

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
[Hazlitt]

The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science of explaining the whole creation and man’s place in it.
[Tolstoy]

Man, like the rest of creation, is simply God become concrete.
[Jung]

The decisive question for man is: is he related to something infinite or not.
[Jung]

Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything. 
[Jung]

What I am remains to be proved by the good that I do.
[Mary Baker Eddy]

Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve.
[George Santayana]

The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crack the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.
[H G Wells]

The chain of being that connects the atom with man is continuous.
[Heisenberg]

God: the set of all superior possibilities.
[Jung]

The modern scientist has discovered that what he is studying is not the world of phenomena, but the webs spun by the mind to hold these phenomena together.
[Gudder]

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
[Euclid]

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality?
[Einstein]

An elementary particle is not an independently existing unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reach outward to other things.
[H P Stapp]

The material object becomes...something different from what we now see, not a separate object on the background or in the environment of the rest of nature but an indivisible part and even is a subtle way an expression of the unity of all that we see.
[Aurobindo]

Be it clearly understood that space is nothing but a mode of particularisation and that it has no real existence of its own...Space exists only in relation to our particularising consciousness.
[Ashvaghosha]

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
[Nagarjuna]

It is man’s lack of knowledge of himself and his motives that calls up disaster.
[CG Jung]