Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.