Then let us again examine whether that is a sound statement, or do we let it pass, and if one of us, or someone else, merely says that something is so, do we accept that it is so? Or should we examine what the speaker means?
-- Socrates
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-- Bertrand Russell
To suppose that earth is the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to believe that in an entire field sown with millet, only one grain will grow.
-- Metrodorus of Chios, 4th century B.C.
All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,--real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.
-- Max Müller, Introduction to the Upanishads Vol. II.
Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death. [...]
His [Jesus] disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
"It will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."
-- The Gospel Of Thomas [ click here... ]
