"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
"The world needs the inspiration of our undamaged instinctive love for the truth."
-Buckminister Fuller
"I need little to be contented; two meals a day, tobacco, books that hold my interest, and a little writing...
more »"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
"The world needs the inspiration of our undamaged instinctive love for the truth."
-Buckminister Fuller
"I need little to be contented; two meals a day, tobacco, books that hold my interest, and a little writing each day. This to me is a full life."
-Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)
"I have lived and will always live, my life as it can be lived at its best, with art, music, poetry, literature, science, philosophy, and thought. I shall know the keener people of this world, think the keener thoughts, and taste the keener pleasures, as long as I can and as much as I can. That's the real practical use of self-education and self-culture. It converts a world which is only a good world for those who can win at its ruthless game into a world good for all of us. Your education is the only thing that nothing can take from you in this life."
-Roland Gross, The Independent Scholar
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russian Poet)
"I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men."
-Søren Kierkegaard
Har gizz kissi kay dil mein naheen hai meri jagah,
Hoon mein kalam-e-naghz walay na shuneedah hoon
There is no place for me, In the heart of any one;
I am an eloquent speech, Which is so far unheard.
-Mirza Ghalib (Urdu Poet)
Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide,
Return and back into your Sun subside
-Fariduddin Attar (Persian Poet), Conference of the Birds (Mantiq at-Tayr)
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