Than - Quotes
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Sometimes it’s easier to pretend that something is not happening rather than deal with it.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part - perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.