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“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
― Leon J. Suenes

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
― Joseph Campbell

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
― Joseph Campbell

“If you are falling....dive.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
― Joseph Campbell

“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
― Joseph Campbell

“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The Hero Path

We have not even to risk the adventure alone
for the heroes of all time have gone before us.
The labyrinth is thoroughly known ...
we have only to follow the thread of the hero path.
And where we had thought to find an abomination
we shall find a God.

And where we had thought to slay another
we shall slay ourselves.
Where we had thought to travel outwards
we shall come to the center of our own existence.
And where we had thought to be alone
we shall be with all the world.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and
yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science
and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and
infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy,
of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a
zero – and an infinity.”
― Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

“As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics to physics. In thermodynamics a zero became an uncrossable barrier: the coldest temperature possible. In Einstein's theory of general relativity, a zero became a black hole, a monstrous star that swallows entire suns. In quantum mechanics, a zero is responsible for a bizarre source of energy-infinite and ubiquitous, present even in the deepest vacuum-and a phantom force exerted by nothing at all.”
― Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

“Nature speaks in equations.”
― Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

“Zero dwells at the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics and relativity; zero lives where the two theories meet, and zero causes the two theories to clash. A black hole is a zero in the equations of general relativity; the energy of the vacuum is a zero in the mathematics of quantum theory. The big bang, the most puzzling event in the history of the universe, is a zero in both theories. The universe came from nothing-and both theories break down when they try to explain the origin of the cosmos.”
― Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

“The infinite zero of a black hole-mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely-punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the sharpness of zero. In a black hole, space and time are meaningless.”
― Charles Seife, Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

“This is the best of all possible worlds.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“Nihil est sine ratione.
[There is nothing without a reason.]”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“Why is there something rather than nothing?”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“The present is big with the future.”
― Leibniz., Philosophical Writings

“There is nothing in the understanding which has not come from the senses, except the understanding itself, or the one who understands.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Philosophical Essays

“If you could blow the brain up to the size of a mill and walk about inside, you would not find consciousness.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“This interconnection or accommodation of all created things to each other, and each to all the others, brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequently, that each simple substance is a perpetual, living mirror of the universe.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G. W. Leibniz's Monadology: An Edition for Students

“He who does not act does not exist.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

“...it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths that distinguishes us from the mere animals and gives us Reason and the sciences, raising us to the knowledge of ourselves and of God...”
― Gottfried Leibniz