"We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe."

-- Claude Bernard

#Believe Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Mind Quotes

“But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.”
“I think that the trivialness of life is, and personally to each one, ought to be seen to be, done away with by the Incarnation.”
“At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, thatâ€™s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isnâ€™t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.”
“Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.284, Broadview Press
“Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).”
“An avidity for more is built into the love of movies. Something else is built in: you have to be open to the idea of getting drunk on movies. (Being able to talk about movies with someone -- to share the giddy high excitement you feel -- is enough for a friendship.”
“The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]”
“Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

Source : "The Era Of The #fumblebrag" by Caleb Garling, www.wired.com. March 26, 2015.

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