After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They read more

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you. - Essays.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted read more

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.

I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.

Freedom is never letting your fears stop you from following your heart.

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.