"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."

-- Herman Melville

#Life Quotes #Sympathy Quotes #Beautiful Quotes

“Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”
“Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.”
“May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.”
“These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.”
“I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.”
“A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.”
“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”

Source : Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.7, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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