dorian minors.

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines-the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by

Sister Carlotta

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our rafts are checked… the human individual lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use... only very exceptional individuals push to their extremes.

William James, The Energies of Men

A wise man once said we exist in a bizarre combination of stone age emotions, medieval beliefs, God-like technology many people can reach

Bliss n Eso on E. O. Wilson, Weightless Wings

Let me tell you something, brother. The notes are right underneath your fingers, baby. You just gotta take the time out to play the right notes.

Ray Charles

We are all so curiously alone, that's why it's important to make signals through the glass."

Marina, So Much To Tell You

You can't allus have things like they are in poetry. Poetry ain't what you'd call truth. There ain't enough room in the verses.

Singer's commentary, The Ballad of Sam Bass

...an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house

Henri Poincaré, Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics

If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy, I can only conclude that I, I was not made for here.

Brooke Fraser on C.S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis Song

the human mind, the last analogue device in a digital world.

Dr. Ford

They are flesh made into automata. Without self, they have nothing to esteem or even doubt. They are bred only to obey their masters.

Lady Janet, Heretics of Dune

the halt, the lame, half-made creatures that we are

Robert K. Greanleaf, Servant Leadership

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

There’s always a prevailing mystique in any civilization. It builds itself as a barrier against change.

Leto