Hippasus Biography Quotes & Sayings

What a strange mind, to cover the real thing with an imitation of something real. — Frances Mayes

To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities. — Fred Hollows

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers? — Phil Harding

That peril is that the human intellect is free to destroy itself. Just as one generation could prevent the very existence of the next generation, by all entering a monastery or jumping into the sea, so one set of thinkers can in some degree prevent further thinking by teaching the next generation that there is no validity in any human thought. It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. If you are merely a sceptic, you must sooner or later ask yourself the question, "Why should anything go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?" The young sceptic says, "I have a right to think for myself." But the old sceptic, the complete sceptic, says, "I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all." There — G.K. Chesterton

OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life! — Nick Carter

I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train ... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put. — Woodrow Wilson

If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained. — Gautama Buddha