For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

We are sorry to confess that biological hypotheses have not yet completely got out of the second phase, and that ghost of ‘vital force’ still haunts many wise heads.

Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.

Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

Sometimes it’s just a matter of letting go and getting on with life.

You get what you order in life.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.

Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.