"As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm."

“It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.”

“Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.”

Source : "Curiosities of Literature, Poverty of the Learned". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1766 - 1848.

“Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.”

“Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.”

“I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.”

“I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.”

Source : "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

“Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.”

Source : Courtney Summers (2010). “Some Girls Are: A Novel”, p.173, St. Martin's Griffin

“This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.”

Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”