Petroulakis Nikos Quotes & Sayings

The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events, — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that prevent us from seeing the world with perfect clarity. We aspire to be perfect Bayesian abductors, impartially reasoning to the best explanation - but most often we take new data and squeeze it to fit with our preconceptions. — Sean Carroll

If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature. — Robert Boyle

There is no significance in life without struggle — Lolly Daskal

Feel your body expanding as you breathe: that is where we live, in the moments between each inhalation and exhalation. — Tan Twan Eng

Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice. — Arundhati Roy

Perchance you shall, fair sir," said Nigel, "for all that I have seen of you fills me with this desire to go further with you. It is in my mind that we might turn this thing to profit and to honour, for when Sir Robert has spoken to you, I am free to do with you as I will. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind. — Richard Llewellyn