“The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.”
“We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.”
“How many times have I turned away? How may voices have I chosen to ignore, my own not least of all? How far into darkness, into shadow, must one crawl not to see? And how can the blind walk out? - C.V. Dreesman, The Marksmith”
“Men are tested and tried amongst deceptions radically and they are winning for themselves abilities to give, to deliberate, to stand fast, to choose well, to discriminate.” “They are far from the automata of the Universe some think them to be. They dance the starry path and are sharpening their knowledge with every orbit of each positive thought travelled.”
“Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.”
“Knowledge is power, I said at last. Let s do it.”
“Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions”
“I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe”
“If we re lucky, writer and reader alike, we ll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we ll ponder what we ve just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we ll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, created of warm blood and nerves as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.”
“Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.”
“Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.”
“Pete and Repeat went out in a boat. Pete fell out. Who was saved?”
“The greatest prison where most people live is the fear of what other people think and say”