The virtues of childhood "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We all God's children, making the devil's adoption list
Free will keep overriding our common sense
Born with a conscience, but over time we build up a tolerance" -- Jon Connor Artistic and intellectual inspiration "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." -- Leonardo da Vinci
"If we surrendered to Earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees." -- Rainer Maria Rilke
"I have no special talents. I am only pa**ionately curious." -- Albert Einstein
"Some people feel the rain, others just get wet." -- Bob Marley
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and morality "Noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good." -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Technological progress and its social impact "Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?" -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec