Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
All entities move and nothing remains still.
from Cratylus (dialogue) by Plato
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
from Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.
from Take Today by Marshall McLuhan
There are great ideas undiscovered - breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truths protective layers.
I do think it a tragedy, however, that government school children are left in the dark about the existence of influential groups with complex social agendas aimed at their lives.
from The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
...it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically whether the earth moves...
In order to understand the world intellectually, the left brain has to distance itself from it and turn it into an object.
from The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven
Everything changes and nothing stands still.
from Cratylus (dialogue) by Plato
Everything flows and nothing stays.
from Cratylus (dialogue) by Plato
Good Fiction Is Always the Truth Inside the Lie.
from Stephen King from A to Z by Stephen King
With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
from A More Perfect Heaven by Dava Sobel
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded...
If He put us on center stage, He must have built it all for us.
He understood both the farmer and the philosopher, and could speak the languages of both.
If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist.
from God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him
from God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
It takes only one independent and effective rational mind to change the paradigms of understanding for the rest of humankind.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled
The word 'occult' comes from the Latin occultus, meaning 'hidden'. In modern times the word is used for those sciences and arts involved with looking into the secret world which is supposed to lie behind the world of our familiar...
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces.
Why don’t you make like a tree and get outta here?
Minds are like parachutes: They function only when they are open.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
from 1984 by George Orwell
No matter what our particular job, especially in our world today, we all are called to be Tikkun olam - repairers of creation.
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make- believe continues into adulthood.
from It’s Not Easy Being Green by Jim Henson
The key to the Hermetic rebirth resided in attainment of gnosis, spiritual knowledge to free the mind from the bonds of material perception.
The Curve? I've not seen that yet.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may...
The eyes are useless when the mind is blind
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men.
The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
There is no secret stuff here. It is all to be found if you have the eye to see it, if you know where to look for it.
from Getting US Into War by Porter Sargent
There is no up and down in Universe; in, out, and around exist.
from Cosmography by Buckminster Fuller
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.
from The Truman Show
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
What you're seeing here, is a mirage.
You could not step twice into the same river.
from Cratylus (dialogue) by Plato
You must unlearn what you have learned