"My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in."

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Source : Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes Reprinted, with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Augustus De Morgan”, p.70

Augustus De Morgan

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Ontology Quotes

“There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.”

Source : Mary Hoffman (2006). “Stravaganza: City of Flowers”, p.464, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
“This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do itâ€”your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. â€”Bobby Goodspeed”

Source : James Howe (2011). “The Misfits”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
“The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central point enveloped by an elastic atmosphere, which is retained in its position by attractive forces, and that the elasticity due to heat arises from the centrifugal force of those atmospheres revolving or oscillating about their nuclei or central points.According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations.”

Source : William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait (1881). “Miscellaneous Scientific Papers”
“I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels; hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.”
“When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?”
“All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2006). “Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town”, p.172, Macmillan
“There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.”

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