It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance. (George Bernard Shaw)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.(Napoleon Bonaparte)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. (Paul Erdos)

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)