The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.
A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
I often wish. . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
I ask to become a faery because I love a faery queen, and because she deserves to have someone who loves her for who she is, not what she is. She needs me. There are people-good people-I love and I'm a liability to them because I'm a mortal. I'm fragile. I'm fine. I am in this world. People I care about, the woman I love, friends in all three of the courts This is where I belong. I just need you to give me what it takes to stay with them and be strong enough not to fail them.
The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.
There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense.
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.