"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say."

- Calvin Coolidge

"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is
than to persist in delusion,
however satisfying and reassuring."

- Carl Sagan

"The whole problem with the world
is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts."

- Bertrand Russel

"At 2:27 P.M. on February 13th of the year 2001,
the universe suffered a crisis in self-confidence.
Should it go on expanding indefinitely?
What was the point?"

- Kurt Vonnegut

"For a long time now our whole civilization has been driving,
with a tortured intensity growing from decade to decade,
as if towards a catastrophe:
restlessly, violently, tempestuously,
like a mighty river desiring the end of its journey,
without pausing to reflect, indeed fearful of reflection...
Where we live, soon nobody will be able to exist."

- Nietzsche "The Will to Power"

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

-Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (1899-1961)