Devon's Quote Collection
Friday, April 26, 2013
All that goes with the territory, that is with a universe we did not make having constraints we cannot escape, and offering only trade offs however much the intelligencia and the politicians proclaim solutions.
--Thomas Sowell
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“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
-Immanuel Kant, in Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
"Yet the most important thing we can do to improve our future is the most personal: to extend a sense of grace and tolerance toward the people who disagree with us or who are different from us in some way-even those who attack us. This sense of forgive ness starts with each of us."
Andrew Yang, Forward
"A spiritual experience in and of itself is not transformative, abiding in divine presence is."
-Phil McLemore
The drive to eliminate paradoxes at any cost, especially when it requires the creation of highly artificial formalisms, puts to much stress on bland consistency, and too little on the quirky and bizarre, which make life and mathematics interesting.
--Douglas Hofstadter, in Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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