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Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. – Oliver Sacks Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire. – Oliver Sacks Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted. – Aldous Huxley Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision. – Paul Davies Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
No matter how far a mind is displaced from those things which it seeks, it will return to them as it must. – Uell Stanley Andersen Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Curtis: That looks like it hurts. – Truth or Consequences, N.M. Movie Quote	added 1 year ago
True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds. – C.S. Peirce Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
...You can take the man out of the woods, but you can't take the woods out of the man. – Gary Paulsen Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces. – Carlos Castaneda Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural… We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance. – Edgar Mitchell Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world. – Søren Kierkegaard Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. – Samuel Butler Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
For fear does things so like a witch, 'Tis hard t' unriddle which is which – Samuel Butler (1612-1680) Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. – Patrick Rothfuss Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. – Wendell Berry Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds. – Edgar Cayce Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. – Albert Einstein Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
He who has got rid of the disease ‘Tomorrow’ has the possibility to attain what he is here for. – George Gurdjieff Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
If there are phenomena, the reality of which we cannot deny but which cannot be fitted into our accepted conceptual framework, then something is wrong with that framework and we must look for another. – George Gurdjieff Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning. – T.S. Eliot Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Oh lord Stanley, lord Stanley give me the brandy! – Mike Lange Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Once you abandon the idea of a personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world. – Dorian Deshauer Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others. – Cormac McCarthy Famous Quote	added 1 year ago

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