#t

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth. ↗

— Julian Cope

#am #appear #away #because #create

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#believe #civilization #cost #created #exigencies

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it. ↗

— Julian Cope

#history #make #people #then #who

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true. ↗

— Julian Cope

#cliche #lose #true #use

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks. ↗

— Julian Cope

#anxious #attacks #borderline #get #i

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. ↗

— David R. Brower

#chemicals #farming #fertilizer #first #fuel

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#am #aware #because #endeavour #extent

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#risk #triumph #win #without

Mathematics is written for mathematicians. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#mathematics #written

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#another #anything #astronomy #cannot #certain