Saskatchewan University Quotes & Sayings

Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason. — Immanuel Kant

The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. — Vasco Ronchi

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. — Thomas Jefferson

It is truly natural and ordinary thing to desire gain; and when those who can succeed attempt it, they will always be praised and not blamed. But if they cannot succeed, yet try anyway, they are guilty of error and are blameworthy. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. — Anthony De Mello

He didn't scream hysterically or stand up and kick the headstone or any of that. He put his face on his knees and listened as the wind from the mountains mercilessly leveled everything in its path. He remembered the person who had helped him fly with the wind instead of being beaten down by it, and he cried quietly into his knees, finally knowing how the big of the sky could make a person feel as alone as a heartbeat in space. — Amy Lane

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations. — Neal Stephenson

You are worth fighting for. — Truth Devour

Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb. — Elie Wiesel

Empty vessels make the most sound. — John Lydgate

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about. — Doug Larson

There is no fool like an educated fool... — Margaret Atwood

The LORD will be awesome against them; s for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and t to him shall bow down, each in its place, all u the lands of the nations. — Anonymous

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring. — Seth Godin