"Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp."

Planck, Max on   

"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."

Planck, Max on   

"There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other. Every serious and reflective person realizes, I think, that the religious element in his nature must be recognized and cultivated if all the powers of the human soul are to act together in perfect balance and harmony. And indeed it was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls."

Planck, Max on   

"Under these conditions it is no wonder, that the movement of atheists, which declares religion to be just a deliberate illusion, invented by power-seeking priests, and which has for the pious belief in a higher Power nothing but words of mockery, eagerly makes use of progressive scientific knowledge and in a presumed unity with it, expands in an ever faster pace its disintegrating action on all nations of the earth and on all social levels. I do not need to explain in any more detail that after its victory not only all the most precious treasures of our culture would vanish, but – which is even worse – also any prospects at a better future."

Planck, Max on atheism   

"There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter."

Planck, Max on   

"A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer."

Acheson, Dean on management
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"It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say."

Merton, Thomas on   

"Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality."

Merton, Thomas on   

"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."

Hesse, Hermann on nature   

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. "

Ruskin, John on vision   

"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back."

Proverb, Turkish on failure
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Gandhi, Mahatma on dictators and dictatorship
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"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry on world
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"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."

Hardy, G. H. on   

"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on truth
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"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on violence
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"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on   

"We have learnt that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to a concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. Feeling that there must be more behind, we return to our starting point in human consciousness - the one centre where more might become known. There we find other stirrings, other revelations than those conditioned by the world of symbols... Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism. Surely then that mental and spiritual nature of ourselves, known in our minds by an intimate contact transcending the methods of physics, supplies just that... which science is admittedly unable to give."

Eddington, Arthur Stanley on physics   

"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on religion
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"Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of these principles requires continual development."

Whitehead, Alfred North on   

"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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"The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions."

Thích Nhat Hanh on peace   

"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look into the reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change. -"

Thích Nhat Hanh on blame
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"In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."

Thích Nhat Hanh on change
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"When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."

Thích Nhat Hanh on passion
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"In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality."

Thich Nhat Hahn on   

"When you shine the light, darkness disappears. We may understand this as a kind of fight between light and darkness, but in reality, it is an embrace. Mindfulness, if practiced continuously, will be strong enough to embrace your fear or anger and transform it. We need not chase away evil. We can embrace and transform it in a nonviolent, nondualistic way."

Thich Nhat Hahn on mind   

"Understanding and love are values that transcend all dogma."

Thich Nhat Hahn on dogma   

"To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is."

Thich Nhat Hahn on reality   

"When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds, there could be no rain, and there would be no flower. Without time, the flower could not bloom. In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It ‘inter-is’ with everything else in the universe."

Thich Nhat Hahn on interdependence   

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Leacock, Stephen B. on advertising
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

Santayana, George on advertising
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"Man knows more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on knowledge
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"Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the 'murderous din of our materialism'."

Merton, Thomas on solitude
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"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours."

Bennett, Alan on