An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.
Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.
You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.
Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.
The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
Yes, we too are stardust.
When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?
I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don’t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.
The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.
Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.
Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.
Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!
Wisest is she who knows she does not know.
There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.
The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.
To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.
I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.
It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
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