Quotations

"We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
-- Albert Einstein

"It's not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority -- by definition, there are already enough people to do that."
-- G. H. Hardy

"There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge."
-- Bertrand Russell

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."
-- Seneca

"The novel is not dead. The novel will be at your funeral."
-- William Faulkner

AT the end of your life, you may close your eyes saying, "I have not been dominated by the Dominant Idea of my Age. I have mine own allegiance, and I have served it."
-- Voltaire

"What is human existence and where does its poetry lie?"
-- Milan Kundera

"Not knowing is much more interesting than believing an answer that might be wrong."
-- Richard Feynman

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
-- Albert Einstein

"A man's salvation consists in rescuing his past from the clutches of time."
-- Louis Auchincloss

"The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play."
-- Pascal

"Real art is without irony. Irony distances the author from his material. Irony is a cheap shot."
-- Robert Altman

"The need for mystery is greater than the need for answers."
-- Ken Kesey

"Flies live in a pixalated world, but they detect the slightest movement. Flies turn everything into a Picasso painting."
-- Andrew Parker

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Juilan Jaynes -- mankind only developed consciousness 3,000 years ago. Sanity may be a recent, possibly overrated, construct.