"Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#World Quotes #Matter Quotes #Inexplicable Quotes

“I can testify that it is nearly always easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely.”
“I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.”
“What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and there is only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship's axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides.”
“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”

Source : Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (2006). “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, p.18, Penguin UK
“We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.”
“The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.”
“Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself.”
“genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.”

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