It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
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Quote:- It has become fashionable to speak of the Enlightenment as an idiosyncratic construction by European males in a bygone era, one way of thinking among many different constructions generated across time by a legion of other minds in other cultures, each of which deserves careful and respectful attention. To which the only decent response is yes, of course - to a point. Creative thought is forever precious, and all knowledge has value. But what counts most in the long haul of history is seminality, not sentiment. If we ask whose ideas were the seeds of the dominant ethic and shared hopes of contemporary humanity, whose resulted in the most material advancement in history, whose were the first of their kind and today enjoy the most emulation, then in that sense the Enlightenment, despite the erosion of its original vision and despite the shakiness of some of its premises, has been the principal inspiration not just of Western high culture but, increasingly, of the entire world.
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Author:- Edward O. Wilson
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice. But I am not frightened. I am joyous. Joyous with realization. For I cannot help but think what a lucky person I am. Imagine that in all the eons of time, in all the possible universes of which Dara speaks, of all the stars in the heavens, Ami and I came together for one brief and shining sliver of time. I stop. I think. Supposing in the grand infinity of this universe two particles of life, Ami and me, swirl endlessly like grains of sand in the oceans of the world -- how much of a chance is there for these two particles, these two grains of sand, to collide, to rest briefly together... at the same moment in time? That is what happened with Ami and me... this miracle of chance.
Author:- Kathryn Lasky
Category:- time
Quote:- It has been granted to you to understand that the heavenly light of unceasing interior prayer is attained neither by the wisdom of this world, nor by the mere outward desire of knowledge, but that on the contrary it is found in poverty of spirit and in active experience in simplicity of heart.
The Way of a Pilgrim
Author:- R.M. French
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.
Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
Author:- Luther E. Vann
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Author:- Isaac Asimov
Category:- motivational
Quote:- It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel -- can't get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top -- doesn't guide anyone in to home or safe harbor.
Author:- Robert Fanney
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.
Wall Of Days
Author:- Alastair Bruce
Category:- time
Quote:- It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…
The Open Door
Author:- Helen Keller
Category:- hope
Quote:- It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Author:- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Category:- time
Quote:- It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.
Beyond Good and Evil
Author:- Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It has never been easy for me to understand the obliteration of time, to accept, as others seem to do, the swelling and corresponding shrinkage of seasons or the conscious acceptance that one year has ended and another begun. There is something here that speaks of our essential helplessness and how the greater substance of our lives is bound up with waste and opacity... How can so much time hold so little, how can it be taken from us? Months, weeks, days, hours misplaced – and the most precious time of life, too, when our bodies are at their greatest strength, and open, as they never will be again, to the onslaught of sensation.
The Stone Diaries
Author:- Carol Shields
Category:- time
Quote:- It has often been said that atheism, in that negative aspect, places a question mark upon our problems.... If atheism places a question mark upon the problem of the universe, it does so in a constructive manner; for that mark points to the direction in which a logical solution may be possible. Such is the mental attitude of the scientist. He places an interrogation point upon his problems and that mark is the impetus, the mental stimulus, that leads him on to take infinite pains in his labors and, as time passes, each question mark is replaced by knowledge; it is knowledge and knowledge alone, reason not faith, that furnishes the period.
The Necessity of Atheism
Author:- David Marshall Brooks
Category:- science
Quote:- It hurts me to hear, to see you got no faith in yourselfIt bothers me now to watch you, you got no faith in your own selfYou listen more to your friends than to your own heart insideWell, you listen to them, oh but you hideYou don't got nothin' to be afraid ofYou're not as bad as you thinkAnd you're always puttin' yourself downBut I'm just gonna tell you that I like youDarling, you always put yourself down, but I like youThat's all I came to sayThen there's no need to think that other people can do things better than you can do 'emCause you got the same power in youI got faith in you. Sometimes you don't have it in yourselfBut I got faith in youAnd our time is right now, now we can do anything we really want toOur time is now, here in the morning of our livesAnd it ain't just me who thinks so, dear, I asked my friendsNow, Leroy and Asa and D. SharpeTell her not to be afraidTell her it's okayTell her it's all rightAnd our time is now, we can do anything we really believe inOur time is now, here in the morning of our livesDear, I asked Leroy and Asa and D. Sharpe, and they saidDon't you love her too?Then tell her she's okayTell her she's all rightYou're okay, dear. There's nothing to feel inferior about. You can do itAnd our time is now, we can do anything you really believe inI know itOur time is now, here in the morning of our livesOur time is right now, you can do anything you set your heart onOur time is now, here in the morning of our livesWe're young now. Right now's when we can enjoy itNow's the time for us to have faith in what we can doNo need to fear, cause now's the time to have faith in what we can do
Author:- Johnathan Richman
Category:- Love
Quote:- It hurts me to hear, to see you got no faith in yourselfIt bothers me now to watch you, you got no faith in your own selfYou listen more to your friends than to your own heart insideWell, you listen to them, oh but you hideYou don't got nothin' to be afraid ofYou're not as bad as you thinkAnd you're always puttin' yourself downBut I'm just gonna tell you that I like youDarling, you always put yourself down, but I like youThat's all I came to sayThen there's no need to think that other people can do things better than you can do 'emCause you got the same power in youI got faith in you. Sometimes you don't have it in yourselfBut I got faith in youAnd our time is right now, now we can do anything we really want toOur time is now, here in the morning of our livesAnd it ain't just me who thinks so, dear, I asked my friendsNow, Leroy and Asa and D. SharpeTell her not to be afraidTell her it's okayTell her it's all rightAnd our time is now, we can do anything we really believe inOur time is now, here in the morning of our livesDear, I asked Leroy and Asa and D. Sharpe, and they saidDon't you love her too?Then tell her she's okayTell her she's all rightYou're okay, dear. There's nothing to feel inferior about. You can do itAnd our time is now, we can do anything you really believe inI know itOur time is now, here in the morning of our livesOur time is right now, you can do anything you set your heart onOur time is now, here in the morning of our livesWe're young now. Right now's when we can enjoy itNow's the time for us to have faith in what we can doNo need to fear, cause now's the time to have faith in what we can do
Author:- Jonathan Richman
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- It hurts to let go, to say goodbye for the final time and remain distant in your closure, it may even tear your heart out to the point of insanity; but somehow in it all you find the pieces of your worth and you start creating yourself again, and in that journey of transformation you find the essence of what truly matters, inner happiness. It's life, we all fall at some stage but it's up to you, to decide how long you want to stay there.
Author:- Nikki Rowe
Category:- Love,best,Life
Quote:- It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.
Author:- Henry Rollins
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.
The Portable Henry Rollins
Author:- Henry Rollins
Category:- Relationships