"Face the thing that seems overwhelming and you will be surprised how your fear will melt away."

“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?”

Source : James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.161

“Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.”

Source : "Quantum theory: concepts and methods" by Asher Peres, Springer, (p. 26-27), 1995.

“I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.”

“Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but I'm Australian. We have it all: the weather, the beautiful cities, the brand of football that involves neither padding yourself up like Santa Claus nor standing in a line in front of goal and covering your testicles.”

“Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.”

“People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.”

“If a state political organization is founded in part upon a state religion with a dogma based on one or a few 'official' prophets, then shamanism, where every shaman is her or his own prophet, is dangerous to the state. [...] Shamanism, as I said, is not a religion. The spiritual experience usually becomes a religion after politics has entered into it.”

“The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO.”