Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Every present state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
- banach's
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
He who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the foundation of all there lay only a wildly seething power which writhing with obscure passions produced everything that is great and everything that is insignificant, if a bottomless void never satiated lay hidden beneath all -- what then would life be but despair?
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
The seductive appeal of objective reality depends on a mistake. It is not the given. Sometimes ... the truth is not found by traveling as far away from one's personal perspective as possible.
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 21:13 — banach
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.