"No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself."

-- Simone de Beauvoir

#Existential Quotes #Existence Quotes #Fulfilled Quotes

“Science is a form of arrogance control.”

Source : Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson (2008). “Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.”
“Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states in one of which the electrons are in phase and out of phase. The energy of the system is successively transferred from one to the other - resonance!”
“It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.”
“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”
“In delay there lies no plenty.”
“My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.”
“Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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