NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 540

 

• ·       “I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active—not more happy—nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.” -  Edgar Allan Poe

  ·       “In death—no! Even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man.” -  Edgar Allan Poe

  ·       “To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!” -  Edgar Allan Poe

  ·       “There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion, even by the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.” -  Edgar Allan Poe

  ·       “There is no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion.” -  Edgar Allan Poe

  ·       “All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.” -  Edgar Allan Poe

  ·       “If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?” -  Edgar Allan Poe

  ·       "Goals rather than creeds should unify religionists."

  ·       Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. - Paul Graham

  ·       Whatever you are, be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln

  ·       "With photographic technique the larger telescopes penetrate far beyond the borders of the grand universe into the domains of outer space, where untold universes are in process of organization. And there are yet other millions of universes beyond the range of your present instruments."