#tan

God is the name we give to the science we don't understand. Science is the name we give to the God we don't understand. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#science #understanding #experience

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading. ↗

— Leszek Kołakowski

#doubt #irony #modernity #philosophy #self-criticism

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#god #heaven #his #low #may

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting ↗

— Milan Kundera

#kekuasaan #lupa #milan-kundera #laughter

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#come #find #i #lot #myself

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#conformity #counted #down #flattened #from time to time

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#expectations #conformity

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#tolerance #understanding-others #aspiration

Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#biology

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture. ↗

— Tim Wise

#culture #inequities #justice #organizing #racism