Chispas Png Quotes & Sayings

If I follow a particular method of knowing myself, then I shall have the result which that system necessitates; but the result will obviously not be the understanding of myself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

But some of these theories are so bold that they can clash with reality: they are the testable theories of science. And when they clash, then we know that there is a reality; something that can inform us that our ideas are mistaken. — Karl Popper

In a field like philosophy, where understanding involves not so much the reception of knowledge but rather a transformation of the receiver itself, so that the receiver, which is to say the student, can generate the knowledge for him- or herself, then the physical presence of the teacher is essential. — Rebecca Goldstein

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them. — Jeffery Deaver

She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered. — Holly Black

Its immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you. — Dean Koontz

I didn't give a fuck whether I found anything or not. The thing is, never to be too anxious. Everything comes in due time. — Henry Miller

cannot remember that my heart stopped beating at any particular time,' he wrote in his diary. 'The blow was so stunning, so final after six weeks of unremitting faith, that it was tempered to me as being beyond my appreciation. Death will be like this, something too vast to hurt much or perhaps even to upset me.' His — Helen Macdonald

Uncomplicated joy and sorrow is not matter for philosophy, but rather for the simpler kinds of poetry and music. — Bertrand Russell

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude. — Oscar Wilde

There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it. — Frank Herbert

You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time. — Adele Geras