every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. he has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. but finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. that is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.
fyodor dostoevsky notes from the underground
Sunday, January 11, 2009
the greatest deception
the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
-leonardo da vinci notebooks
-leonardo da vinci notebooks
mysterious order
i'm not an atheist and i don't think i can call myself a pantheist. we are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. the child knows someone must have written those books. it does not know how. the child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. that, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. we see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.
-albert einstein
-albert einstein
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