Fridtjof Aurin Quotes & Sayings

Giving is a way of having what you need. — John Piper

The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect. — Yuri Milner

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet. — Victor Hugo

Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage — Paulo Freire

Let's promise to each other that if we ever meet again we will never plow and push our new-fallen snow. We will not become slush. We will stay like this field and melt away together only in the sun's good time. — Jerry Spinelli

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. — Mahatma Gandhi

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned. — Lou Rawls

Everyone at every minute of his life must feel something. Only the dead have no sensations. — Konstantin Stanislavski

By looking at a person's features, clothing, and speech, even Confucius would not be able to say what sort of a person he is. But by testing him in a position and seeing what he he does, even someone with so-so judgment would be able to know if he is wise or not. — Han Fei

What good were bright gods who only watched from afar while dark gods strove every moment to devour you? — Laini Taylor

Suddenly they were dancing, holding each other tight, moving in circles that symbolised their relationship, both afraid to let go, both willing the song to continue while silently their insides tore. — Anna McPartlin

Sketches of mad skies spilling stars caught in spiraling gyres, diagrams for constructing sextants tall as a man and armillary spheres to mimic the motion of the cosmos. He decides that he must have all of it, that he will cram the little observatory with maps and charts, clocks and compasses, and instruments for bringing the sky nearer. — John Pipkin

Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters."
"You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[ ... ]
"But I came far. Miles can be years. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I seek spirituality and self-knowledge. — Lailah Gifty Akita