Iva Pucillo

“The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars