If I had read all the books that I have bought, then, in all likelihood, I would not have been setting up my profile and bookshelf here.

And now:
"All study, whether of human affairs or of non-human Nature, is subject to the limitations of human thought; and the first and the greatest of these is that thought cannot help doing...more »

If I had read all the books that I have bought, then, in all likelihood, I would not have been setting up my profile and bookshelf here.

And now:
"All study, whether of human affairs or of non-human Nature, is subject to the limitations of human thought; and the first and the greatest of these is that thought cannot help doing violence to reality in the act of trying to apprehend it."
- Arnold Toynbee

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." - Aldous Huxley

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.": Rudyard Kipling - (1865-1936)

"Chance & chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us." - Milan Kundera in 'The Unbearable Lightness of being' « less