Pensieve Harry Potter Quotes & Sayings

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm. — Bertrand Russell

The only indestructible palace is in the heart. — Michael D. O'Brien

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi

We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. — Tom Wolfe

If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice. — Calvin Coolidge

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. — Helen Keller

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. — Bertrand Russell

The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion. — Dalai Lama

Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision. — Ben Horowitz

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus. — Jack Canfield

You are prettier than I." She put more pressure on his arm. "Perhaps you could offer yourself as whore instead. — Kiersten White

Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer. — Henry Ward Beecher

(I) "My soul spoke to me in a whisper, urgently and alarmingly: 'Words, words, do not make too many words. Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness, and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are all completely mired in madness?'"
(2) Jung's soul: "There are hellish webs of words, only words ... Be tentative with words, value them ... for you are the first who gets snared in them. For words have meanings. With words you pull up the underworld. Word, the paltriest and mightiest. In words the emptiness and the fullness flow together. Hence the word is an image of the God."
(3) "But if the word is a symbol, it means everything. When the way enters death and we are surrounded by rot and horror, the way rises in the darkness and leaves the mouth as the saving symbol, the word. — C. G. Jung

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop. — Harold Jeffreys

But you would think, wouldn't you, that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt? - Sir Nicholas de Mimsy — J.K. Rowling