It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. – Diane Ackerman
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool. – Mary Catherine Bateson
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. – Jean Baudrillard
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World. – Jean Baudrillard
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself. – Alexander Graham Bell
As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. – Bhagavad Gita
Its not only the most difficult thing to know ones self, but the most inconvenient. – Josh Billings
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment – the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. – Jorge Luis Borges
Ah, but a mans reach should exceed his grasp, Or whats a heaven for? – Robert Browning
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. – Albert Camus
There comes a time in the seekers life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved. – Sri Chinmoy
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live –moreover, the only one. – E. M. Cioran
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just whats so. – Werner Erhard
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. – William M. Evarts
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. – Edna Ferber
An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. – Enrico Fermi
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
