"The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery."

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Source : Eugene Paul Wigner, Andrew Szanton (2013). “The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner”, p.318, Springer

Eugene Wigner

#Men Quotes #Honor Quotes #Desire Quotes

“But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.”
“On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.”
“There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.”
“I always heard that I was too small.”
“It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”
“I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.”
“I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.”
“What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making subjects play their assigned roles (the poor as passive victims, celebrities as glamorous) are hardly adequate responses. In fact, these might be reasons to ask for the help of amateurs who do not know how to stylize their imagery and are not interested in making a publication seem more palatable to its potential consumers.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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