Quotes on Deep Thought

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.

When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.