"Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected."

-- John Cowper Powys

#Wise Quotes #Pain Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Angels appear in many different forms to hold your hand through the difficult times.”
“People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.”
“Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.”
“Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.”
“Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.”
“People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.”
“The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”

Source : A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)
“See Iâ€™m not a monster, Iâ€™m just ahead of the curve.”

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