The student asked: Master, the train I was waiting for never came, what should I do? The master replied: Maybe the train isn't coming because it knows you're waiting! Surprise life! Give up the train, don't wait for the train!
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Quote:- The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.
Author:- C.S. Lewis
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
An Introduction to Mathematics
Author:- Alfred North Whitehead
Category:- science
Quote:- The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Author:- St. Thomas Aquinas
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The study of scripture leads to the right knowledge of God.
Author:- Lailah Gifty Akita
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
Summa Contra Gentiles
Author:- St. Thomas Aquinas
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The success and failure of an agreement is a result of how expectations, conditions, benefits, and consequences are understood and managed.
Author:- David Benedict Zumbo
Category:- Life
Quote:- The success is at your hand. If you utilize your hand, you will succeed, otherwise you'll fail.
Author:- Nazim Khan
Category:- science
Quote:- The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions.
Author:- Paul A.M. Dirac
Category:- science
Quote:- The suffering of one man will sting us all. The happiness of one man makes everyone grin.
Journey of Soul - Karma
Author:- Shree Shambav
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book."(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)
Selected Prose
Author:- A.E. Housman
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The Summer DayWho made the world?Who made the swan, and the black bear?Who made the grasshopper?This grasshopper, I mean—the one who has flung herself out of the grass,the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.I don't know exactly what a prayer is.I do know how to pay attention, how to fall downinto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,which is what I have been doing all day.Tell me, what else should I have done?Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?
House of Light
Author:- Mary Oliver
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.
Perdido Street Station
Author:- China Miéville
Category:- time
Quote:- The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die
The Complete Sonnets and Poems
Author:- William Shakespeare
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burned!
Fahrenheit 451
Author:- Ray Bradbury
Category:- time
Quote:- The sun does not rise or set. The earth rotates.
Author:- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Category:- science
Quote:- the sun doesn't apologize for shiningthe rain doesn't apologize for fallingthe birds don't apologize for singingthe trees don't apologize for growingyou don't need to apologize for being
Author:- Kirsten Robinson
Category:- motivational,best
Quote:- The sun god Ra was described as the ba which came forth from Nun, the ba which Nun created. In these terms, the ba is a potentiality which is actualized. According to these statements, Chaos produced Order. Nun, primordial Chaos, generated the god Ra who then made the ordered cosmos. This is actually extremely similar to science’s version of Big Bang theory. Randomness – primordial Chaos, formlessness or non-existence (non-being) – miraculously produced its opposite: a formed, ordered cosmos. In truth, science hasn’t moved on at all from Egyptian mythology. It has no better explanation for how the cosmos was produced than ancient Egyptian priests spinning mythological webs did.
Think Like an Egyptian: How the Ancient Mind Worked
Author:- Steve Madison
Category:- science