Denecke Jb1 Quotes & Sayings

If happiness is based on feeling pleasant sensations, then in order to be happier we need to re-engineer our biochemical system. If happiness is based on feeling that life is meaningful, then in order to be happier we need to delude ourselves more effectively. — Yuval Noah Harari

We come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to the sovereignty of numbers. Many of our psychologists, sociologists, economists and other latter-day cabalists will have numbers to tell them the truth or they will have nothing ... We must remember that Galileo merely said that the language of nature is written in mathematics. He did not say that everything is. And even the truth about nature need not be expressed in mathematics. For most of human history, the language of nature has been the language of myth and ritual. These forms, one might add, had the virtues of leaving nature unthreatened and of encouraging the belief that human beings are part of it. It hardly befits a people who stand ready to blow up the planet to praise themselves too vigorously for having found the true way to talk about nature. — Neil Postman

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte

I really have never been nervous in the big leagues. — Cliff Lee

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. — Hans Selye

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it." — Robert Reich

A true initiation never ends. — Robert Anton Wilson