Born on June 22 — Quotes

"Buddha had said:
"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

Nietzsche: “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

"Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy."

stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh!

Religion has always persecuted science.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn..

Sweet science will banish the dark religions ... so that enlightened religions can flourish.

As a scientist I have come to learn that information is
only as valuable as its source.

Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

Freedom felt like… nothing.
Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of compulsion, the absence of agony. A gap in his consciousness where geasa had perpetually jostled for priority, demanding his obedience. It was the photographic negative of Jax’s existence during every minute of the 118 years since he’d been forged.
It was overwhelming. Exhilarating. Terrifying.
Overwhelming: he could do anything he wanted. But the grand sum of anything-at-all was nothing-at-all. The topology of freedom offered no gradients to nudge him, no landmarks to guide him. How did humans guide themselves? How did they know what to do and what not to do? How did they know when to do anything without the benefit of geasa and metageasa to prioritize every single action of their waking lives? How did they order their daily existence without somebody to tell them what to do?

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.