When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. – John Muir, 1869, My First Summer in the Sierra Category: Philosophical
We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. – Christopher Isherwood Category: Philosophical
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Philosophical
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. – Stanislaus I of Poland Category: Philosophical
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. – Xavier Becerra Category: Failure
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon Category: Poetry
