Hilberts Problems Quotes & Sayings

The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering. — Sam Harris

If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten. — Albert Pike

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it. — Iris Apfel

So what did Sammy do?" Irv asked, his mouth full of gluten. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first. — David Levithan

'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains. — Zac Goldsmith

The two princes stared at each other, one gold and one silver, one her twin and one her soul-bonded. There was nothing friendly in the stares, nothing human - two Fae males locked in some unspoken dominance battle. — Sarah J. Maas

How could something that made a person feel so safe be so BAD? — Katie Alender

I love driving fast under streetlights. — John Green