It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.
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Quote:- It is incredibly damaging to deceive ourselves into an emotional state of misery. Remain vigilant.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- motivational,time
Quote:- It is incredibly important to remain receptive to the meandering flow of time.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- hope,time,inspiration,motivational
Quote:- It is indeed true we better leave this 'i this' and 'you that' nonsense behind us considering the fact that there where is 'you' and 'i' is but oneself not wanting to be by itself and that the purpose of self, and as such the meaning of life, has always been- and will forever continue to be companionship, friendship, love.
Author:- Wald Wassermann
Category:- science
Quote:- It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.
Utilitarianism
Author:- John Stuart Mill
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is inevitable that we will incur events in our lives that do not accurately reflect our choices, actions, or preferences.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- motivational
Quote:- It is infinitely harder to ask questions in such a way that the audience is led not to the answers (the province of the demagogue) but to new perceptions.
The Best Man
Author:- Gore Vidal
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
On the Origin of Species
Author:- Charles Darwin
Category:- science
Quote:- It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
The Cry for Myth
Author:- Rollo May
Category:- science
Quote:- It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Author:- Richard Dawkins
Category:- science
Quote:- It is joyful to see someone who is hopeful in a situation that is hopeless.
Author:- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Category:- hope
Quote:- It is known that knowledge is power, and power is energy, and energy is matter, and matter is mass, and therefore large accumulations of knowledge distort time and space.
The Science of Discworld
Author:- Terry Pratchett
Category:- science
Quote:- It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.
Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics and Morality
Author:- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is like this: there is a continuous current of chatter happening in you twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. From this current a few spikes rise. These spikes are what you feel and express as worries. Worries are nothing but spikes in the current of thoughts constantly moving within you.
Author:- Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Category:- motivational,knowledge
Quote:- It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
Author:- Vincent Van Gogh
Category:- time
Quote:- It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.
Author:- Ilyas Kassam
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves
Living in the End Times
Author:- Slavoj Žižek
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Author:- T.F. Hodge
Category:- best
Quote:- It is most remarkable that, while confessing their entire ignorance of the true Nature of even terrestrial matter--primordial substance being regarded more as a dream than as a sober reality--the physicists should set themselves up as judges, nevertheless, of that matter, and claim to know what it is able and is not able to do, in various combinations.
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4
Author:- H.P. Blavatsky
Category:- science