Talsey Dalcester Quotes & Sayings

I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father. — Anonymous

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions. — Agatha Christie

You're right. I'm the old man who wasn't able to become one of those fish (however many there may have been) swimming eternally in the bluish-green light of the grotto beyond the crack in the rocks. — Kenzaburo Oe

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

For those moments, life is worth living. Moments of kindness, caring, and loving. — Debasish Mridha

To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties by means of Hilbert's program. Here one regards mathematics as a formal game and one is only concerned with the question of consistency ... The Realist position is probably the one which most mathematicians would prefer to take. It is not until he becomes aware of some of the difficulties in set theory that he would even begin to question it. If these difficulties particularly upset him, he will rush to the shelter of Formalism, while his normal position will be somewhere between the two, trying to enjoy the best of two worlds. — Paul Cohen

The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't stop looking as soon I find an obvious answer, but if I go on looking, and the obvious-seeming answer still seems obvious, I don't feel guilty about keeping it. — Eliezer Yudkowsky