Nature does nothing uselessly.
-Aristotle
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
-Stuart Chase
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
-Søren Kierkegaard
It is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
The Self, having in dreams enjoyed the pleasures of sense, gone hither and thither, experienced good and evil, hastens back to the state of waking from which he started. As a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass from this life to the next.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
-Harry S. Truman