"In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves."

-- Carl Sagan

#Moon Quotes #Extraterrestrial Quotes #Star Gazing Quotes

“Beauty was so heavily important in my family, something I had to contend with. All those experiences allow me to make what I'm making today. I grew up with that. There's a reason why I express that in my art. I'm trying to figure it out myself.”
“Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press
“No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.”
“The principal objective of American government at every level should be to see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.”
“I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.”
“One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.”
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin
“You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.”

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