I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
- Pablo Picasso

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
- Jane Wagner

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
- Aldous Huxley

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
- Bertrand Russell

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
- Carl Sagan

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
- Jane Austen

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
- Stephen Jay Gould

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes