It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.
Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim.
We must keep our freedom of mind, … and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny–he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally–you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser.
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest - Julius Evola
Through space, the universe understands me and engulfs me like a point; by thought, I understand it. - Blaise Pascal
A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. - Confucius
Do not go outside, return to yourself: truth dwells in the inner man. - Saint Augustine
A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. - John Henry Cardinal Newman
I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. - H. L. Mencken
We tire of thinking, and even of acting; we never tire of loving. - Auguste Comte
The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. - Ancient Nordic adage
All wisdom is from God. He who loves wisdom, let him ask of God, and he will receive it. All is open to God; with Him is the treasury of wisdom; from Him, by Him, and in Him are all things. It has willed God to illumine my spirit by His grace, to lead me in the way of truth, to whom be all praise, who reigns ‘in excelsis’ for ever and ever - Amen. - John Cremer, Abbot of Westminster (14th century)
All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development. - A. E. Waite
A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man. - Franz Hartmann
What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with. - Dion Fortune
It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which we recognise as sound come into existence before the more rapid pulsations of electricity and light. Thus modern science confirms the ancient occult teaching that sound is the root of physical existence. 'It is out of Sound that every form comes, and it is in Sound that every form lives. - Paul Foster Case
Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, or read it in books. Look for the truth in yourself, not without yourself. - P.D. Ouspensky
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard. - Eliphas Levi
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. - Paulo Coelho (“The Alchemist”)
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost. - Gaston Bachelard
Be the change that you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert
Avoid vice, therefore, and cultivate virtue; lift up your mind to the right kind of hope, and put forth humble prayers on high. - Boethius
I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. - Herbert Bayard Swope
Sam Levenson, “In One Era & Out the Other”:
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone. … We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.
Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.
Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.
All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision…
I look with wonder at that which is before me.
Man’s word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If you can believe, all things are possible.
Your word is your wand. The words you speak create your own destiny.
Yesterday was rest day – wasn’t supposed to have time to workout today because I started at my new bar this morning but I got out at 2 and killed a leg day in 65 minutes. Burned 550 calories with no cardio. I basically did a HIIT banded/bodyweight workout and followed it up with hack squats, cable kickbacks, and single leg pushdowns. Felt great!
Heading out with my roommate, her boyfriend and my boy tonight to get some dinner and watch the celtics game. Life has been so good lately
Friday night. Shabbat. Sick as a dog. (I don’t get that saying.) My only plan is to drink my peppermint tea and finish these three books that have taken me too long to finish so I can focus on the seven books I have to read in the next four weeks to end this second-to-last semester of grad school. Too many books is not a thing.
