God died at the Big Bang.

an 8 year old in a children's philosophy workshop

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Jean Giraudoux

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

Pablo Picasso

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right.

Isaac Asimov

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

René Descartes

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Terry Pratchett, “Thief of Time”

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Terry Pratchett

Every revolution becomes an evolution when you put the pieces together properly.

Walter Friedlander (paraphrased by Steven Goldman)

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.

Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

I remember a disturbing conversation I had had only a few years earlier with an American lady who was married to a Tibetan. Having heard of my interest in science and my active engagement in dialogue with scientists, she warned me of the danger science poses to the survival of Buddhism. She told me that history attests to the fact that science is the “killer” of religion and advised me that it was not wise for the Dalai Lama to pursue friendships with those who represent this profession. By taking this personal journey into science, I suppose I have stuck my neck out.

Dalai Lama XIV, “The universe in a single atom”

A reporter asked the couple, “How did you manage to stay together for 65 years?” The woman replied, “We were born in a time when if something was broken we would fix it, not throw it away…”

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True friends are like stars. You don't see them always, but you know they're there.

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Rich people are just poor people who have money

Marnix Gijsen

It's only “work” if you'd rather be doing something else

Dean Kamen

If we weren't such good friends I think that I'd hate you.

Jenny Owen Youngs, “Fuck was I”

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Audrey Hepburn

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

On a T-shirt

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dalai Lama

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’

Sidney Harris

The miracle is this: The more we share, the more we have.

Leonard Nimoy