QUOTES

• “For the most beautiful of created things is due to the best of intelligible causes.”

–– Diogenes Laertius

• “Plain, unaccomplished, staunch to do great deeds, unversed in talk, with all his store of wisdom curtailed to action.”

  –– Euripides

• “A life without a feast is a long road without an inn.”

  –– Democritus

• “Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows.”

  –– Hesiod

• “I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.”

  –– Arthur Eddington

• “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”

  –– Richard Feynman

• “When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.”

  –– Pablo Picasso

• “Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in virtue; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. Now those who wish well to their friends for their sake are most truly friends; for they are so disposed by reason of the friends themselves, and not incidentally.”

  –– Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

• “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

  –– Robert Bresson

• “The true character of the student is one of great mental and spiritual activity.”

  –– Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

• “People must live their lives fully. With all their might. Live as fully as possible. That’s all we can do.”

  –– Hayao Miyazaki, Kingdom of Madness and Dreams

• “I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.”

  –– Vincent van Gogh

• “Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”

  –– Henri Poincaré

• “Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me for ever.”

  –– Paul Klee

• “If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it.”

  –– Mary Oliver

• “Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.”

  –– Polybius

• “There’s lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.”

  –– Steve Jobs

• “The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification.”

  –– Moritz Schlick

• “Know the Atman as Lord of a chariot; and the body as the chariot itself. Know that reason is the charioteer; and the mind indeed is the reins. The horses they say are the senses; and their paths are the objects of sense.”

  –– Upanishads, Hindu treatise 800-200 BC

• “Now come: I will untangle for thy steps
  Now by what motions the begetting bodies
  Of the world-stuff beget the varied world,”

  –– Lucretius