If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
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Quote:- If our sides were unequal our angles might be unequal. Instead of its being sufficient to feel, or estimate by sight, a single angle in order to determine the form of an individual, it would be necessary to ascertain each angle by the experiment of Feeling. But life would be too short for such a tedious groping. The whole science and art of Sight Recognition would at once perish; Feeling, so far as it is an art, would not long survive; intercourse would become perilous or impossible; there would be an end to all confidence, all forethought; no one would be safe in making the most simple social arrangements; in a word, civilization would relapse into barbarism.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Author:- Edwin Abbott
Category:- science
Quote:- if our story was a fairytaleyou’d be a great white sharkand I would be the goldfishthat fell in love with him
Goldfish: A Collection of Poetry
Author:- A.J. Byron
Category:- Love
Quote:- If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
The Complete English Poems
Author:- John Donne
Category:- poetry
Quote:- If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.
Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
Author:- Cameron Conaway
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- If people become happy not when a new church, a new mosque or a new synagogue is opened in the country, but when a new knowledge centre is opened, then it means they have reached a certain mental maturity! What humanity needs is not new places of worship, but new knowledge that can take humanity to new levels, to new places!
Author:- Mehmet Murat ildan
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.
The Mountain of Ignorance
Author:- Sunday Adelaja
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.
Author:- Richard Bachman
Category:- motivational
Quote:- If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.
Author:- John Green Looking for Alaska
Category:- best
Quote:- If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"--it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
The Great Gatsby
Author:- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category:- hope
Quote:- If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.
Author:- Fritjof Capra
Category:- science
Quote:- If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
Author:- John Keats
Category:- poetry
Quote:- If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.
Inner Experience
Author:- Georges Bataille
Category:- poetry
Quote:- If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most.Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
Author:- Walker Percy
Category:- poetry
Quote:- If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough!
Author:- Charles Baudelaire
Category:- poetry
Quote:- If reading makes you happy, do it. Whatever makes your heart sing and brings you joy, do that too.
Author:- C. Toni Graham
Category:- inspiration,motivational
Quote:- If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore
Author:- Felix Alba-Juez
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- If romantic words were the pilar of love, poets and singers would not divorce; and if money was the mainstay of a family, billionaire families in dollars would never break up.
Author:- Bruce Mbanzabugabo
Category:- Love
Quote:- If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.
Author:- Matshona Dhliwayo
Category:- Life
Quote:- If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.
Author:- Matshona Dhliwayo
Category:- Life