"I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to."

-- Wilfred Grenfell

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“Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.”
“For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”

Source : Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”
“To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.”
“Music that paints nothing is only noise.”
“Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves The stages of human development are to strive for Possession (Artha), Knowledge (Dharma), Ability (Kama), Being (Moksha) Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge. It has nothing to do with individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further â€“ when man dies his karma lives and creates for itself another carrier.”

Source : "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 5), 1961.
“Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion?”

Source : "Oliver Heaviside (1850-1927) — Physical Mathematician" by D.A. Edge. Teaching mathematics and its applications: An International Journal of the IMA, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 55-61, 1983.
“There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.”
“If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?”

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