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Don’t underestimate the hole your absence would leave.

Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

My father always used to say, don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Without the word, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I’m always reading books as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I’ll always be in supply.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

— Michael Faraday

Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851); letter 2411, edited by Frank A. J. L. James, 1999. The correspondence of Michael Faraday, Volume 4, p. 281

A man who is not on fire is nothing.

Spring has come again. The earth is like a child that has learned poems by heart.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves.

Life is about execution rather than purpose.

Here I am human, here I am allowed to be so!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Faust: Part One, 1808