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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

—Albert Einstein
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe,
and sometimes I think we're not. In either case
the idea is quite staggering.

—Arthur C. Clarke
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

—Hazlitt
The mind justifies what the heart has chosen.

—Unknown
How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?

—Brian Greene
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

—John Milton
The hardest thing to understand is the limits of our minds. We will never be able to imagine certain things just because our brain isn't physically capable of it.

—Dr. Mikael Aunom
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

—Anthony de Mello
To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

—Laurence Overmire
The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

—Richard Dawkins
Some among Bush's trusted White House staff fear what they are seeing and where Bush is taking us. His state of mind hauntingly reminds them of Richard Nixon's Final Days. They fear Bush is becoming Nixonesque . . . or worse. Although Bush lacks Nixon's paranoia, he may entertain even more dangerous notions.

—Mike Hersh
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

—Stanley Kubrick (09/1968)
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

—Rene Descartes
No human thing is of serious importance.

—Plato
Be open minded. Not because it makes you a humble person, but because there are so many idiots out there, and if you can't accept that, you'll sooner or later become insane.

—Jafn (2010)
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

—Elbert Hubbard
Every One speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of of his own mind.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space? ... Those of us who are forced by their own sensibilities to view their lives in this perspective — who recognize that there is no purpose they can comprehend and that amidst a countless myriad of stars their existence goes unknown and unchronicled — can fall prey all too easily to the ultimate anomie. ... The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache ... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

—Stanley Kubrick (09/1968)
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.

—Carl Sagan
My life has been a series of tragedies, none of which actually happened.

—Mark Twain

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