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What do You Aspire for?
Just as when the parts are set together
There arises the word “chariot”
So does the notion of a being
When the aggregates are present.
—Buddha
I have been fooled once, and I’ll be damned if I will be fooled again! Einstein is supposed to have made an epochal discovery. I am respectful and interested, but also skeptical. There is no reason to suppose that Einstein’s relativity is anything final, [no more] than Newton’s Principia. The danger is dogmatic thought; it plays the devil with religion, and science is not immune from it.
—Alfred North Whitehead
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
—Henry David Thoreau
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
—Marcus Aurelius
Published on April 1, 2006 11:42 AM
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