"If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a priori exclude the possibility that we are pulled as well as pushed along its axis? The future has, after all, as much or as little reality as the past, and there is nothing logically inconceivable in introducing, as a working hypothesis, an element of finality, supplementary to the element of causality, into our equations. It betrays a great lack of imagination to believe that the concept of "purpose" must necessarily be associated with some anthropomorphic deity."

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Arthur Koestler

#Believe Quotes #Reality Quotes #Past Quotes

“It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior”

Source : Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.22, Haymarket Books
“A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (2011). “Jesus in Blue Jeans: A Practical Guide to Everyday Spirituality”, p.66, Hachette UK
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”
“I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.”
“Wisdom is found only in truth.”
“The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.7, HarperCollins
“The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.”

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