“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.” — Elizabeth Warren

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise above the ideas of the time. Voltaire.

Mūsu evolūcijas mantojums ir dārgumu krātuve, kur virspusē guļ nederīgais, nepiemērotais un kaitīgais, kurš jāierobežo un jāveido, bet, dziļāk ielūkojoties, katrs var atrast balvas un vērtības, kas ļauj dzīvot izcili un piepildīti. I. V.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.”

Montesquieu, (Charles Louis de Secondat) (1689-1755)

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein

Mēs esam kā ceļinieki, kuriem svešinieks ir iedevis līdzšinējā ceļa aprakstu, bet nav iedevis tā ceļa aprakstu, pa kuru jāiet, lai nokļūtu pie mērķa. I. V.

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way. The aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way.

Paul Dirac

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forego their use”. Galileo (1584-1682).

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. ”

Aldous Huxley.

“It is the nature of human species to reject what is true but unpleasant but to embrace what is obviously false but comforting.” H.L. Mencken.

Eric Sevareid’s Law: “The chief source of problems is solutions”.

“What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution, but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and the education of the billions who are its victims.“

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The greatest shortcoming of human race is our inability to understand the simple arithmetic. Albert Bartlett

Thinking is very upsetting, it tells us things we should rather not know.

“Giving society cheap, abundant energy . . . would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”

~ Paul Ehrlich

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” ― Christopher Hitchens

Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of, and thinking and learning cures the problem of ignorance.

In contrast stupidity is forever, and being stupid implies wanting to remain ignorant. Lawrence B. Crowell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

— Bertrand Russell

The majority of people are idiots, and because of this the few can control them. LC

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

Where a drunken person drinks in order to be happy, who can deny that such a person is happy when drunk? But the happiness can become a crutch and can be unhealthy in the long run. The happiness is only apparent and not real. Leyton M

If you look at the work of the ethologists (people who study animal behaviour) the most striking result to me is that all species develop behaviour patterns appropriate to their life styles and evolutionary niches in which they evolve.

I would suppose that this applies also to that degraded animal species, Homo sapiens. Sydney

“To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats – we know it not.” Eric Hoffer

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes:

– an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and

– the most ruthlessly skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.

This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

“Anyone who thinks that an economy can be expanded forever, within the confines of a finite planet, is either a madman or an economist”. ~ Kenneth Boulding.

Lai valdītu pār citiem, jāvalda pār sevi.

Pilnīgi un daudzpusīgi dzīvi izdzīvo vien tas, kurš dedzīgi ļaujas acumirklim un izdzīvo to tā, it kā tas būtu pēdējais.

Jo mazāk zina, jo vienkāršāk dzīvot. Zināšanas dara brīvu, bet nelaimīgu.

Īstenībā tas taču ir kauns, ka staigā pa zemi un par to gandrīz nekā nezina. Daudz lielāks kauns, ja vispār nezina, kādēļ staigā pa zemes virsu. E. M. Remarks

We have got rid of the fetish of the divine right of kings, and that slavery is of divine origin and outhority. But the divine right of property has taken its place. The tendency plainly is towards…’a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich’.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes, US Prezident 1822-1893.

Neticiet tam, kas rakstīts senos manuskriptos, neticiet tam, kas paziņots par pareizu valstī, kurā jūs dzīvojat, neticiet tam, kas jums mācīts bērnībā, bet izdomājiet paši, kas ir patiess, un pēc tam, kad jūs esat par to pārliecinājies, ticiet tam, dzīvojiet saskaņā ar to, un palīdziet citiem ar to dzīvot.

Sidharta Gautama.

Politika – tā ir nozare, kurā nepieņem lēmumus, kas balstās uz faktiem, bet runā par faktiem, kas balstās uz lēmumiem.

Liela daļa cilvēces vēstures pildīta ar cīņu par cilvēka tiesībām. Tā ir mūžīga cīņa, kurā pilnīga uzvara nav iespējama. Bet šīs cīņas atmešana nozīmē cilvēku sabiedrības sabrukumu.

A. Einšteins.

Mūsdienu cilvēces problēmas nevar atrisināt ar to domāšanu, kura šīs problēmas radīja. A. Einšteins

Ateists ir nožēlojams cilvēks, kurš nespēj ticēt lietām, kuras nevar pierādīt. Tādā veidā viņš ir atņēmis sev iespēju justies pārākam par citiem. Chaz Bufe

Kad tehnikas spēki pārspēj morālos, tad mēs nonākam pie vadāmām raķetēm un nevadāmiem cilvēkiem.

Martin Luther King

Ja meli ir pietiekoši lieli un tie tiek atkārtoti pietiekoši bieži, tos sāk uztvert kā patiesību.

Tie, kas turpina ticēt absurdajam, tie turpina rīkoties absurdi. Voltērs

Cilvēki domā, ka viņi ir brīvi, bet tā ir liela kļūda. Brīvi viņi ir tikai tajā dienā, kad vēl parlamentu. Pārējā laikā viņi ir vergi un nekas. Viņi izmanto īso brīvības brīdi, lai to pazaudētu. Un tas ir pelnīti. Ž.Ž. Ruso

98% cilvēku ir saprogrammēti zombēti automāti un tikai 2% tādu nav. Pie tam tie 98% runā par sevi tā, it kā viņi būtu tie 2%.

Neviens cilvēks nekļūst par muļķi, kamēr viņš uzdod jautājumus. Charles Steinmetz

Valodas ir spēles, kuras pie dažādiem noteikumiem tiek izspēlētas dažādās kultūrās, un tādēļ kopēju, universālu izpratni iegūt nav iespējams. L Vitgenšteins.

Smieties bieži un daudz, iegūt inteliģentu cilvēku cieņu un bērnu mīlestību, iegūt godīgu kritiķu atzinību un paciest neīstu draugu nodevību, atstāt pasauli mazliet labāku nekā tā ir bijusi, vai nu veselīgā bērnā vai dārza stūrītī vai uzlabotā sabiedrībā. Zināt, ka cilvēki elpos brīvāk tādēļ, ka jūs esat dzīvojis – tas nozīmē, ka jums ir paveicies. Ralfs Waldo Emersons.

Ja kapitālisms ir vienlīdzīga bagātības sadale, tad sociālisms ir vienlīdzīga nabadzības sadale. Vinstons Čērčils.

Cilvēks, kurš gaida to dienu, sākot ar kuru viņš sāks dzīvot kārtīgi, ir līdzīgs zemniekam, kurš gaida, kamēr upe izžūs. Bet upe plūst un plūst. Horācijs.

Tas, kas cilvēkam netiek teikts, veido viņa pasaules uzskatu un iespaido viņa rīcību tāpat, kā tas, kas tiek teikts. To sauc par propagandu noklusējot. Tāpēc tik daudz pie mums ir slepens.

Charles Sullivan, ASV žurnālists.

Apziņa vai pat aizdomas, ka esi izdarījis kaut ko nepareizu, vajā un rada šausmas jebkuram cilvēkam, kurš sevi nav nocietinājis ar vienaldzību. Ādams Smits.

Tiem, kas nezina, kas ir mīlestība, nav vērts teikt – tāpat nesapratīs. Tiem, kas zina, kas mīlestība ir, arī nav vērts teikt, jo viņi to jau zina. Marlene Dietrich.

Acīmredzamus faktus visgrūtāk ir ieraudzīt pie sevis.

Ar apātiju pret politiku mēs maksājam ar to, ka valsti pārvalda negodīgi cilvēki. Platons.

Īsts džentlmenis izturas ar cieņu arī pret tiem, kas viņam nevar būt noderīgi. E.M. Remarque

Ārišķīgs lepnums un skaļa sava viedokļa aizstāvēšana liecina par iekšēju nedrošību par savu pozīciju.

Kas mēs esam? Ko mēs zinām? Ar nepilnīgām smadzenēm apveltīti radījumi, kas lūkojas Visuma bezgalībā. Radījumi ar eņģeļa spārniem un primātu instinktiem. Artūrs Konan-doils.

A few hours before Adolf Eichmann was executed, a prison warden asked him, “What should the Jews have done? How could they have resisted?”

Cilvēkiem, kuri tic alternatīvajai medicīnai, vajadzētu lidot lidmašīnās, kuras izstrādājuši fiziķi, kuri tic alternatīvajai fizikai. Terence Geogahegan

Ja cilvēki neprot pārvaldīt paši savu dzīvi, tad vēl jo mazāk viņiem var uzticēt vadīt citu dzīves. Thomas Jefferson

Gudri cilvēki šīs vienkāršās patiesības ierakstīja Neatkarības deklarācijā, bet, ja nākotnē kādi cilvēki vai grupas paziņos, ka tikai bagātiem ir pieejama dzīve, brīvība un laime, tad viņu pēcnācējiem jāielūkojoas Neatkarības Deklarācijā un jāatrod sevī drosme atjaunot cīņu, kuru uzsāka viņu tēvi.

Abrahams Linkolns

Cilvēki, kuri nevar apmaksāt savus rēķinus, saņemt medicīnisko palīdzību un pabarot savus bērnus, daudz nerūpējas par apkārtējās vides un citiem globāliem jautājumiem. Lūk, tādēļ nav iespējams atdalīt sociālā taisnīguma un bagātību sadales jautājumus no apkārtējās vides saudzēšanas jautājumiem. Bob Zanelli

Cilvēku esības traģika nav meklējama nelaimēs. Tā ir ieraugāma mūsu nolemtībā. Nolemtībā būt lielo likumu izpildītājiem. Garret Hardin.

Cilvēks vēl joprojām savā ķermenī nes neizdzēšamu savas primitīvās izcelsmes zīmogu. Č. Darvins

Mūsu spēja sevi pārvaldīt atpaliek no mūsu spējas pārvaldīt Dabu. Mēs esam sarežģīta civilizācija. Mēs varam sagraut šo civilizāciju, ja mēs nespēsim pārvaldīt sevi. Dž. Soross.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. Victor Frankl

If ideal objectivity is impossible, failing to strive for it is nonetheless scientific suicide. Norman Levitt.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” A. Einstein

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that priviliged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Martin Luther King.

Ticiet saviem sapņiem. Cilvēki, kuri noniecina citu sapņus, savējos ir pazaudējuši. E.M. Remarks

Reliģija bez zinātnes ir akla, bet zinātne bez reliģijas ir mazefektīva. A. Einšteins.

No laimīgas dzīves mūs attālina divas kļūdas:

– tad, kad mūsu dzīvē nepieciešamas lielas izmaiņas, mēs izdarām mazas;

– tad, kad mūsu dzīvē nepieciešamas mazas izmaiņas, mēs tās nedarām, jo domājam, ka vajadzīgas lielas.

Spēja nebūt pretrunā ir laimes priekšnoteikums.

No attāluma jebkurš ceļš šķiet gluds.

Treniņi un fiziska piepūle neprasa laiku. Tie dod mums papildus laiku.

Demokrātija ir nezinoša indivīda ticība kolektīvai zināšanai.

H.L. Mencken

Doma, ka cilvēki atteiksies no irracionāliem priekšstatiem, ja tos konfrontēs ar neapgāžamiem faktiem, ir irracionāls priekšstats, kuru neapstiprina neapgāžami fakti. George Lakoff

Haoss ir tāda sakārtotība, kas rada apjukumu mūsu apziņā.

George Santayana.

Mīlestībā abi domā, ka viņiem ir paveicies.

Lai saņemtu kādus labumus nepelnīti, vajadzīgi saprāts un izglītība. Bez tiem cilvēki turpina tiekties un ilgoties pēc šiem nepelnītajiem labumiem un to saņemšana un uzkrāšana nekad nedod piepildījumu. Plutarhs.

Ar vēlēšanām elite dod cilvēkiem iespēju balsot. Nelaime ir tā, ka tas ļauj viņiem domāt, ka viņi pieņem lēmumus.

Sam Hantington

I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it. —Thomas Paine, 1796

Freedom is the right not to lie. Albert Camus

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. – Cicero

It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. – Garry Marshall

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. –

Henry C. Link

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. – Franklin P. Jones

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. – Peter McWilliams

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. –

Sophia Loren

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. –

George Bernard Shaw

A man’s mistakes are his portals of discovery. – James Joyce

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

– Peter McWilliams

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Scott Adams

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

– Conrad Hilton

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. – Winston Churchill

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

– Mary Tyler Moore

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go. – Richard Bach

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

– John Powell

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. – Chinese proverb

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. – Theodore Roosevelt

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

Evolution is almost universally accepted among those who understand it, almost universally rejected by those who don’t. Richard Dawkins

Svētīgi tie garā vājie kā rasotas pļavas miglotiem prātiem,

Jo tiem ir dots savu vājumu neapzināties.

Vizma Belševica.

Tad, kad mēs iemācīsimies redzēt, kā darbojas mūsu smadzenes, tad sāksim sevi saprast.

Tad, kad mēs iemācīsimies saprast citus, tad iegūsim mieru.

Tad, kad iemācīsimies patiesīgumu pret sevi, tad sāksim dzīvot.

Līdz pirmajam jādzīvo ilgi. Otro vairākums iegūst ar sevis maldināšanu. Priekš trešā vajadzīga drosme. I.V.

Ja savas kļūdas neredz, tā ir cilvēcīguma pazīme.

Ja savas kļūdas nelabo, tā ir vājuma pazīme.

Ja savas kļūdas noliedz, tā ir muļķības pazīme. I.V.

Indeed, I tremble for my planet, when I reflect that Nature is inflexible: that her response to our abuse cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

If we don’t halt population growth with justice and compassion, it will be done for us by nature, brutally and without pity — and we will leave a ravaged world.

Dr. Henry W. Kendall, Nobel Laureate

No one in their right mind would let a first-century dentist fill their children’s teeth. Why, then, do we allow first-century theologians to fill our children’s minds?” Michael Dowd

Older people can see the injustice with more understanding and compassion. Laura Carstensen

Excessive Privilege should never be due merely to the luck of birth, nor should it ever be excessive even when earned.

Bob Zannelli

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. We have created Star Wars civilization, with stone age emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

Edward Osborn Wilson

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Epicurus

Turn every challenge into an opportunity, because opportunities open up for the prepared.

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France

Psychopath is someone who wants to do whatever he wants without concern for the consequences for others, and who strongly resents any restraint. kerry

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Richard Feynman

More discoveries come from finding out that you’re wrong than from finding out that you’re right. Ian Linnell

“The old scientific ideal of episteme – of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge – has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever. It may indeed be corroborated, but every corroboration is relative to other statements which, again, are tentative. Only in our subjective experiences of conviction, in our subjective faith, can we be ‘absolutely certain.'”

– The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 1934, 1959

Faith is believing what you know isn’t true.

Mark Twain

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

A. Einstein

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;

the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

— Plato

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Christopher Columbus

“We are a way for the Universe to know itself”. Carl Sagan

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration.” –Abraham Lincoln

The most honorable way a scientist can make his contribution to human progress is to distribute knowledge. For free. I.V.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. – Honore de Balzac

College is a place where professor’s lecture notes go straight to the student’s lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. Mark Twain

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. Plutarch

To say that God did it is not to explain anything, but simply to offer an excuse for not having an explanation. (Plato, Cratylus)

The price of knowledge is eternal skepticism. Justen Robertson

If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.

If you can’t reproduce it, you don’t understand it.

Power derives from force or the threat of force. Authority is the likelihood that a command, once given, will be obeyed.

Max Weber

If you break the laws of logic or probability theory you decrease your chances of arriving at true beliefs, and if you break the laws of decision theory then you decrease your chances of achieving your goals. Luke Muehlhauser

Give a child religion first, and she may find it hard to shake even when she encounters science.

Give a child science first, and when she discovers religion it will look silly. Luke Muehlhauser

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;

the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

— Plato

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”

— U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864

“Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.”

–E. O. Wilson

“My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical.”

–Wittgenstein

“Act only on that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

–Kant

“Man when perfected is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice he is the worst of all.”

–Aristotle

“I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”‘

— Mark Twain

Not only will men of science have to grapple with the sciences that deal with man, but — and this is a far more difficult matter — they will have to persuade the world to listen to what they have discovered. If they cannot succeed in this difficult enterprise, man will destroy himself by his halfway cleverness.

~ Bertrand Russell, 1951

“Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy.” Chang Tzu

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

For any belief, it is always possible to come up with a seemingly unlimited amount of supporting evidence.

David P. Barash

Science deals with facts discovered by observation and experimentation. Philosophy deals with beliefs derived by inference from facts.

We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth.

Voltaire

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. Mascha Normann

You are what you do, not what you say.

“Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.”

René Descartes, Discourse on Method, 1637

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. Tennessee Williams

You don’t really understand how something works until you can reproduce it yourself.

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusion of knowledge.” -Daniel Boorstin

“…be careful what you wish for, you might get it…”

If there is any inconsistency in a set of axioms then every statement can be proved (and disproved), and nothing of any value remains. Chaitin, G.

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn’t breaking. It hurts because it’s getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds. Rita Mae Brown

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming. Madeleine L’Engle

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thougt which they seldom use. Soren Kirkegaard

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie

Education is not the learning of facts, but the traning of the mind to think. Albert Einstein.

To create, one must question everything. Eileen Gray.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Louis Hector Berlioz.

Uz visu skatieties tā, it kā jūs to redzētu pirmo vai pēdējo reizi. Ar to jūs piepildīsiet savu laiku.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. David Hume

Mīlēt nozīmē riskēt, ka negūsi pretmīlestību. Cerēt nozīmē riskēt, ka vilsies. Cilvēks, kurš neriskē, neko nedara, neko nepieredz, viņam nepieder nekas, un viņš nav nekas. Viņš nespēj mācīties, mainīties, augt, mīlēt un dzīvot.

Es iešu caur dzīvi tikai vienreiz. Ja ir kāda laipnība, ko varu izrādīt, vai kāds labs darbs, ar ko varu kādam palīdzēt, tas jādara tagad. Jo pa šo ceļu man vairs nebūs lemts iet. Viljamss Penns.

Pasaulē nav vietas gļēvuļiem. Mums visiem ir jābūt gataviem strādāt, ciest un mirt. Tava dzīve nav mazāk cēla tikai tāpēc, ka tev pa priekšu neiet bundzinieks, kad dodies savās ikdienas cīņās, un tevi nesagaida gavilējošs pūlis, kad atgriezies ar uzvaru vai zaudējumu.

Roberts Lūiss Stīvensons.

Panākumi lielā mērā ir atkarīgi no tā, ka tu paliec un izturi tad, kad citi ir atmetuši ar roku. Viljams Peters

Būt gudram nozīmē saprast, cik kļūdaini ir mūsu uzskati un viedokļi, cik nenoteiktas un nestabilas ir vērtības, uz kurām mēs visvairāk paļaujamies. Džeralds Brenans

Tikai tas ir dižs, kas vientuļo vēja balsi pārvērš maigākajā dziesmā ar savu mīlestību. Kahlils Gibrāns

Nav iespējams liels talants bez liela gribasspēka. Onorē De Balzaks

Nežēlo laiku draudzībai – tas ir ceļš uz laimi.

Nežēlo laiku sapņiem – tie aizvedīs tavu kuģi līdz zvaigznēm.

Nežēlo laiku, lai sniegtu un saņemtu mīlestību – tā ir dievu privilēģija.

Nežēlo laiku, lai palūkotos apkārt – diena ir pārāk īsa, lai tu būtu savtīgs.

Nežēlo laiku smiekliem – tā ir dvēseles mūzika.

Mācies no pagātnes, lai mūža galā nebūtu jāsecina, ka tu nemaz neesi dzīvojis. Jo daudzi nonāk līdz brīdim, kad jāpamet sava vieta uz zemes, un, atskatoties atpakaļ, viņi redz prieku un skaistumu, kas tā arī viņiem nepiederēja, jo viņi dzīvoja bailēs. Klervotera

Nesteidzies, neraizējies. Tu esi ieradies tikai uz īsu brīdi. Tāpēc noteikti apstājies un pasmaržo ziedus. Volters Hāgens

Kad es piedzīvoju ārkārtīgi grūtu laiku, kāds man piezvanīja un automātiskajā atbildētājā bija dzirdams, ka viņš spēlāja klavieres.

Bet es tā arī neuzzināju, kurš tas bija.

Mums vajadzētu atcerēties, ka neesam vienīgie, kas reizēm nonāk šķietamā strupceļā. Jau tūkstoši pirms mums ir sastapušies ar līdzīgu likteni un uzvarējuši. Dr. R. Brašs

Mēs visi un ikviens no mums cieš sakāvi neskaitāmas reizes. Ja pieņemam zaudējumu ar gaišu prātu un no tā mācāmies un meklējam citu ceļu – rodam piepildījumu.

Rozanna Ambroza Brauna.

Laime ir kā smaržas, ko tu nevari uzliet citiem, pāris pilienu neuzpilinot arī sev. Ralfs Valdo Emersons.

Nav nepiepildāmu sapņu, ir tikai mūsu ierobežotā uztvere par to, kas ir iespējams. Beta Mende Konija

Vai tu domā, ka vari, vai domā, ka nevari – tev ir taisnība!

Henrijs Fords

Labākā izeja no grūtībām ved cauri grūtībām. Roberts Frosts

Dzīve prasa tikai to spēku, kāds tev ir. Ir jāpaveic tikai viens varoņdarbs – tu nedrīksti bēgt. Dāgs Hammerskjelds

Mums pietiek cilvēku, kas mums stāsta, kā ir. Tagad mums noderētu kāds, kas pateiktu, kā varētu būt. Roberts Orbens

Mūsu pienākums ir veidot savu raksturu. Mūsu dižais un brīnišķais mākslas darbs ir piedienīga dzīve. Viss pārējais labākā gadījumā ir tikai piedevas un atbalsts. Mišels de Montēns

Senā laime ir novītusi un mirusi. Bet, raugi, jauns zaļums rotā zemi…

Trauslais jaunas un labākas dzīves iesākums. Pema Brauna

Nemeklē atbildes, kuras tev nav iespējams dot, jo tu nespētu ar tām dzīvot. Galvenais ir visu izdzīvot. Pēc tam tu pamazām, to pat nemanot, nodzīvosi līdz dienai, kad saņemsi atbildi.

Rainers Marija Rilke

Stabilitāte nāk no iekšienes, nevis no ārpuses. Lusila Kliftone

Cerība ir radījums ar spārniem, kas ligzdo mūsu dvēselē, dzied dziesmu bez vārdiem un nekad nenorimst. Emīlija Dikinsone

Arī šis mirklis paies. Klēra Reinere.

Kad tu esi gājis tik tālu, ka nevari paspert vairs nevienu soli, tad tu esi nogājis tieši pusi no attāluma, ko spēj noiet.

Grenlandiešu sakāmvārds.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony. Douglas Coupland

Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore. Zora Neale Hurston

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction – and ultimately, without a major resolution. Jasper Fforde

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome. Derek Walcott

Only a rule of skin in the game, that is, direct harm from one’s errors, can puncture the game aspect of research and establish some form of contact with reality.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, NYU-Poly

For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are. Lloyd Alexander

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments – there are only consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.” ~ GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Richard P. Feynman

Laws are the spider’s webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape. -Solon

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. A.J. Cronin

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. ” — Theodore Roosevelt

‘One death is a tragedy, a million a statistic.’ Josef Stalin

I have just realized that the stakes are myself.

I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life. Diane di Prima

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science. James Lovelock

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. Graham Greene

Learning something new is always slower than actually doing something old. Pemberton

By sticking your head in the sand and refusing to acknowledge the problem, you are part of it.

Anne O’Reily

Peace cannot be kept by force.

It can only be achieved through understanding.

Albert Einstein

To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle. G. Orwell.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. Leonard Woolf

When we killed–or exiled–God, we also killed ourselves…. No God, no afterlife, no us. We were right to kill Him, of course, this long-standing imaginary friend of ours. And we weren’t going to get an afterlife anyway. But we sawed off the branch we were sitting on. And the view from there, from that height–even if it was only an illusion of a view–wasn’t so bad.

Julian Barnes

All people are not people without other people.

We are a way of the cosmos to know itself.

Carl Sagan

It is easier to point the finger of blame at others than it is to find and implement solutions.

William Benson

Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting. Haruki Murakami

Visu mūsdienu sabiedrību traģika ir tā, ka mēs esam nolemti rīkoties saskaņā ar to nezināšanu, kāda mums ir. Tāpēc arī civilizācijas iet bojā.

Insincerity is a special kind of dishonesty. Jim Wyman

Reason exists for the sake of the emotions, not the other way around. David Hume

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are. Saying of the cetics

A belief that cruelty and violence are needed to address cruelty and violence only perpetuates cruelty and violence. Christine Hansen

Before we can know what is moral, we must know what is true.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. Stephen Hawking

We don’t receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey through the wilderness, which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us. Marcel Proust.