Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? I am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1841He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry·1943It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Aristotle·-350 ADIn every systematic inquiry where there are first principles, or causes, or elements, knowledge and science result from acquiring knowledge of these.
