"Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply."

-- Miyamoto Musashi

“Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“"Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.”
“I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.”
“No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.”
“Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.”
“Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.”

Source : "God in the Machine". "Antiquity", Volume 41, Issue 163, p. 174, September 1967.
“Shall I tell you something I've been noticing? The mistrust this society has for women. All kinds of experts and officials are terrified because so many women are working. They really think that women have to be coerced into having babies and raising kids.”
“Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.”

Source : "Thomas Mann: A Critical Study". Book by R. J. Hollingdale. Chapter 2, 1971.

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