Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum –
“I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.”
– Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”
Forfatter: Morten Juhl-Johansen
Start med starten
The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
– Robert G. Ingersoll
Beskidt arbejde med rene hænder
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
– William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
Klar
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
– Dorothy Parker
Kan det rummes
Wer die Musik nicht hört, hält die Tanzenden für wahnsinnig.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Destination
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ondskab er, viser det sig, forstemmende banalt
Probably the biggest disappointment of adult life is learning that unlike in all of the stories you’ve seen, actual villains are only motivated by two things:
- bigotry
- money
Pilen på et moralsk kompas
Ideale sind wie Sterne. Man kann sie nicht erreichen, aber man kann sich an ihnen orientieren.
– Carl Schurz
Spiritual reality
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.
– Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World
Men en gnist
What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
– Virginia Woolf