"Incompatibilists will tell you that a work of art has no meaning unless the artists could have chosen to create a different one, but actual artists often say things like "the book chose me" - that is, the work had to be. Some philosophers would call it "volitional necessity", and a similar case that's discussed is the case of Luther saying "here I stand, I can do no other"."

“Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.”

“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”

“The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers

“I've also worked with various producers and artists around the world, which has helped with my international recognition. We've sold a lot of albums online in places like Norway and France. Sometimes we track my hits online daily and we are getting regular hits from people all over the place.”

“We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.”

Source : "Why the best thing you can do is fail" By Eddie Obeng, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2012.

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

“For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.”

Source : Source: www.americansuburbx.com

“Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.”