I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau, 1854
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. – Johnnetta Cole
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. – Claude Bernard
However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. – J. K. Rowling
![[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. - Harry Eme](/quote/ceases-fraction-becomes-integer.jpg "[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer. - Harry Eme")
