Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing...

Sì perché l’autorità dell’opinione di mille nelle scienze non val per una scintilla di ragione di un solo, sì perché le presenti osservazioni spogliano d’autorità i decreti de’ passati scrittori, i quali se vedute l’avessero,...

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read...

I read the novel and I was shocked by what an extraordinary piece of observation it was. How honest and truthful its writing was. I was also shocked by the ages of the characters (Elizabeth...

We try so hard to teach our children the right things―good from bad, choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons are learned through observation and experience. Perhaps we’d be better off teaching our youth to...

There seem to be two main types of people in the world, crosswords and sudokus.

Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation,...

If I wouldn’t have looked under the hood, I’d have never noticed the problem. But as far as I know, the problem didn’t exist before I opened the hood. So did I cause the problem...

Fairy tales make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn’t it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential...

Der Satiriker ist ein gekränkter Idealist: er will die Welt gut haben, sie ist schlecht, und nun rennt er gegen das Schlechte hin.

The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet...

It doesn’t seem to matter what we think…The prince will come up here and look at us as if we’re barrels in a trader’s wagon. And if I’m salt pork and he doesn’t care for...

The experience of a miracle means we must recognize that the data offered by our senses recur in regular pattern.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

When you meet me, the first thing you’ll notice is I have a firm handshake. The second thing you’ll notice is that I’m wearing oven mitts. I like my introductions hot, like my iced coffee.

My observation is that this year there was a lot of work done by local officials by both developing responsible budgets and doing a very good jobs to communicate what’s behind the budgets.

What does introspection mean? It means you’re looking in the wrong direction.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world...

It’s funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This...

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

Men are fickle creatures, capable of kindness and compassion yet fascinated by the basest atrocities.

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter’s place was, and I looked across it and...

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

Observe and learn from stronger and better people than yours instead of laughing and pulling legs of poor and weak than yours.

Observation is at its core an expression of love which doesn’t get caught up in sentiment.

Enchantment lies in everyday moments if you are observant.

I tried telling him without telling him, through body language, and I observed he was unobservant.

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way – in the minutiae of observation.

You have no tail!” said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then at Wilson.”How do you manage?

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of...

Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn’t make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days–as long as...

Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Jetez sur une étoile un rapide coup d’œil, regardez-la obliquement, en tournant vers elle la partie latérale de la rétine (beaucoup plus sensible à une lumière faible que la partie centrale), et vous verrez l’étoile...

Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by...

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Everywhere I go, it’s me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

They have taken the situation very seriously indeed — including the high profile visit by the prime minister, observation of thousands of people, enforcing bird culls and vaccinating poultry,

You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you.

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of...

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

a dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show...