Quotes

“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” Carl Sagan

“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.” Carl Sagan

“When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.” Carl Sagan

“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.” Carl Sagan

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” Carl Sagan

“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.” Carl Sagan

“Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.” Carl Sagan

“The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.” Carl Sagan

“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.” Carl Sagan

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.” Carl Sagan

“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?” Carl Sagan

“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.” Carl Sagan

“I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.” Carl Sagan

“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.” Carl Sagan

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” Arthur Schopenhauer