Fetzer Center Quotes & Sayings

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. — Alan Joshua

If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet. — Wael Ghonim

....I came to consider betrayal a moral violation of another's humanity - akin to torture. — Sandra Lee Dennis

Faith moves mountains; love moves the world. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time. — Cy Coleman

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. — Carl Sagan

The journey, which prior to this was torture because all you wanted to do was get there, is now beginning to become a pleasure. It is the pleasure of searching and the pleasure of an adventure. You are nourishing something that's very important - your dreams. — Paulo Coelho

Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are living in an era when many of the basic tenents of Christianity, which has supported Western spiritual values for almost two thousand yearsm have come into conflict with the conclusions of science and philosophy. While religions have lost much of their power, science and technology have not been able to generate convincing value systems to replace them. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

One is very crazy when in love. — Sigmund Freud

Be not too hasty," said Imlac, "to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men. — Samuel Johnson

My best-kept secret is that I didn't reject normality. Normality rejected me. — Maggie Young

Heresy and progress often look much alike. — Joe Abercrombie

Sweet Goddess! she thought suddenly. I have never even spoken to him. I know nothing about the man, nothing at all.
What if he tries to get me into some sordid little room and force himself on me, like an animal? How will I fight him off? All alone, not able to cry for help?
No, it will not be like that, it could not be. I would have known if he were that kind of man, and felt repelled. He could not sing and write such beautiful verses, and look so fine if he were not the man I want him to be. Yes, when we meet, it will be as it is in his songs. He will obey, do exactly what I tell him and no more. Oh, I have hoped so long for this. Goddess of Love, let it be beautiful. — Robert Shea

Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse. — Winston Graham

In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all. — Susan Sontag