Quotes of: Von Keyword

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Philosophical Investigations

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

The Pursuit Of Simplicity

Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.

Prayer and Community: The Benedictine Tradition

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Where is Science Going?

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

What Happens When I Pray

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

The Worst Journey in the World

If someone does not believe in fairies, he does not need to teach his children 'There are no fairies'; he can omit to teach them the word 'fairy'.

Zettel

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become fa...

Asa Gray

We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.

Albio Sires

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

Damien Hirst

The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last Letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

George Catlin

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

Joseph Altuzarra

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

Julie Bishop

We can have the best health insurance options in the world, and people still won't get needed care if we don't increase our supply of primary care physicians and nurses.

Jeff Merkley

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Luther Burbank

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

Marc Jacobs

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Maria Mitchell

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

Nicholas Culpeper

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Pope Francis