Stephen Van Rensselaer Quotes

#1. The purpose of all our explanations is not to have you understand anything, but for you to snap from the understanding of the intellect to the understanding of pure spirit. All our explanations work backwards.

Frederick Lenz

#2. I said, "I just want to know you and then disappear."
She said, "Knowing me does not mean dying.

Rumi

#3. We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly understood by God, who alone penetrated the infinite series in one stroke of the mind.

Gottfried Leibniz

#4. a child without tradition is a child crippled before the world. Tradition

Louis L'Amour

#5. The really important thing is not to reject anything.

Susan Sontag

#6. I am a dyke! And I'm damn proud of it!

Joan Rivers

#7. Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.

Megan Alexander

#8. Be blessed and always be a blessing.

Rachelle Van Ryssen

#9. We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

Seneca The Younger

#10. Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

Ken Wilber

#11. The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. Surveying the shifts of interest among computer scientists and the ever-expanding family of those who depend on computers for their work, one cannot help being struck by the power of the computer to bind together, in a genuine community of interest, people whose motivations differ widely.

Maurice Wilkes

#13. Anyone with an ailment or who wears glasses or anyone slightly different suddenly wears a bull's eye. I think that dodgeball derailed an entire generation of Americans. It's the true red menace.

Arthur Jones

#14. I used to be a longshoreman. I didn't go to college. I have a voice that when I say something, it can sound way meaner than you think it is.

Artie Lange

#15. It's hard to live mansion style when you have a mobile home budget

Bryon Decker