The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

— Charles Bukowski

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

— Bill Nye

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

— Oscar Wilde

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

— Alan Watts

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.

— Antoine Lavoisier

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting, ever-changing, applicable to everything; with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

— Carl Sagan

sqq. The Story of Everything

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; while working at Haus Esters, about 1927/28.

You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have.

— Charles Bukowski

Art exists because life is not enough.

— Ferreira Gullar

What traces does an event leave in a room after it has taken place?

— Gregor Schneider

The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths, that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart.

— Charles Bukowski