The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Alexander PopeIf I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon BonaparteThe least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
AristotleThe universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinRightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou cannot step into the same river twice.
HeraclitusIf I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina JolieA letter does not blush.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand RussellFalsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEach life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen KingReligion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan WattsEvery particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William ShakespeareI can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. RockefellerI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob DylanThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.
Hermann HesseDeath is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch SpinozaThere are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
VoltaireThere is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert CamusIt is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry PratchettI love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.
RihannaThe arts don’t exist in isolation.
David ByrneTo assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert CamusIt has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand RussellEvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur SchopenhauerThat deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert EinsteinThe whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles DickensWhat’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
Marilyn MonroeMysteries are not necessarily miracles.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLet us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles DickensYou are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
EpictetusIt does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas JeffersonIf two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon B. JohnsonShallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘
Brian EnoBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalPoetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent Van GoghEvery artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
Albert CamusWhat was God doing before the divine creation?
Stephen HawkingSitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.
Taylor SwiftIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel JohnsonReligion is the opium of the masses.
Karl MarxFor me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.
Narendra ModiI’m an idealist without illusions.
John F. KennedyA well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaEternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann HesseAs long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Kendrick LamarNothing can come of nothing.
William ShakespeareI have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.
Steven WrightWe are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. LewisThe rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Mark TwainLove is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily DickinsonMusic is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
Bruno MarsI feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLanguage is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam ChomskyTruth is a pathless land.
Jiddu Krishnamurti