"When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey."
The Little Prince
"The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them."
Philip Pullman
"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage."
Anonymous
"Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception."
Luis Marques
"Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves."
Richard Feynman
"Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth."
Theresa Breslin
"Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master."
Anonymous
"He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty."
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
"Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness."
Ausonius
"When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so."
R. N. Prasher
"...There was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have."
Robin Hobb
"...The student of prehistoric man...Cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs."
Arthur Keith
"A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something."
Anonymous
"We are born into this precious human existence to achieve the uni cation of opposites and become enlightened, or liberated, from the illusion of separation."
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