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“The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Ethics and aesthetics are one.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Only describe, don't explain.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“There can never be surprises in logic.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
5.61 Logic fills the world: the limits of the world are also its limits.
We cannot therefore say in logic: This and this there is in the world, that there is not.
For that would apparently presuppose that we exclude certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case since otherwise logic must get outside the limits of the world : that is, if it could consider these limits from the other side also.
What we cannot think, that we cannot think: we cannot therefore say what we cannot think.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

“The human heart weights (on average) eleven ounces and beats (approximately) one hundred thousand times per day.
In Ancient Greece, the theory was widely held that, as the most powerful and vital part of the body, the heart acted as a brain of sorts- collecting information from all other organs through the circulatory system. Aristotle included thoughts and emotions in his hypotheses relating to the aforementioned information- a fact that modern scientists find quaint in its lack of basic anatomical understanding.
There are reports that long after a person is pronounced dead and a mind and soul gone from its casing, under certain conditions, the heart might continue beating for hours. I find myself wondering if in those instances the organ might continue to feel as well. And, if it does, whether it feels more or less pain than mine at present time.”
― Sarah MacLean, One Good Earl Deserves a Lover

“The human heart is surely a deep, closed, blood-filled pit. When it opens, all the thirsting, inconsolable shades we have loved run to drink and be revived; they grow continually denser around us, blackening the air. Why do they run to drink the blood of our hearts? Because they realize that no other resurrection exists. (Report to Greco)”
― N. Kazantzakis

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
― Isaac Newton

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
― Albert Einstein

“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
― Albert Einstein

“I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax”
― Richard Phillips Feynman

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“You can't fool nature.”
― Richard Feynman

“Since you and your brain (and mine too) are biased to seeing patterns even where there are no patterns we have to be very careful to be rational. Facts are not always convenient. Nor are they always warm and fuzzy. Often they do not fit our stories of the way things are. And if we ignore them we try to fool nature, and nature cannot be fooled.”
― Richard Feynman

“Nature's imagination far surpasses our own”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”
― Aristotle, Politics

“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Essays