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Serious Quotes
The primary source of scientific thought is not reasoning, but the precise verification of an association originally supplied by the imagination.
To think clearly in human terms you have to be impelled by a poem.
Truth is only believed when someone has invented it well.
In art truth is suggested by false means.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality seldom is.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal decisions and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
In the provence of the mind, what we believe to be true either is true or becomes true within certain limits, to be found experientially or experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be transcended.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In an endeavour to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanisms of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears the ticking. But he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility or the meaning of such a comparison.
We are more readily betrayed by our certainties than by our doubts and curiosities.
A reasonable man adapts to the conditions that surround him. The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Security is mostly a superstition… It does not exist in nature… Life is either a glorious adventure or nothing.
Perfect health is the natural ability of any soul to experience precisely the symptoms that it most needs at any given moment, to respond to those symptoms and move on to the next experience.
Too tired for company, you seek a solitude you are tired to fill.
We perfected and practise Foretelling…to exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
If seeds had goals, there wouldn't be very many flowers.
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said; but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?". I dream of things that aren't and ask "Why not?"
Sometimes we make mistakes on purpose, to teach ourselves something important.
One is fated to the degree that one is unconscious.
We can bear the unpleasant much more easily that we can the inconsequential.
I do not want to create a fuss!
It is because the work of a master cannot be copied that one can learn from him.
If you have to search for the forest of fantasy, you have lost the way.