Quotes and Conundrums
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
William James
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of the buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
Crowfoot (1821-1890)
"Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel."
Voltaire
"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove."
Ashleigh Brilliant
"All we are is the result of what we have thought."
the Dammapada
"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps."
Emo Phillips
"I used to lose my temper in arguments, until someone told me, 'Cooler heads prevail.' Thus began my collection in the basement freezer."
John H. Crocker
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei
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