Weisheit

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it.

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own.

I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing division as indicated above may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.

If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country 'would sink giggling into the sea.

We become the books we read.

Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S.

Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or, but both/and.

Apologies aren't meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w.

All those that don’t allow us to do things for the Soul (our True Self), they are our opposers (kashays); we shouldn’t listen to them.

There's a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer.