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Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical.

O thou monster, Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!

William Shakespeare

ignorance

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

experience

Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.

Denis Diderot /

Time, matter, space — all, it may be, are no more than a point.

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Art is science made clear.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

The dream is the luxury of thinking.

Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for.

poetry

Which was the most necessary, society already formed to invent languages, or languages already invented to form society?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

The job of science will never be done, it will just sink deeper and deeper into never-ending complexity.

Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

No reason is needed for loving.

love

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin

artist

The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.

fact

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!

William Shakespeare - Richard III

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

poetry

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

The knowledge of death, and of its terrors, is one of the first acquisitions made by man, in consequence of his deviating from the animal state.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

problem

Ideas are cheap. It's only what you do with them that counts.

idea

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

death

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin

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