There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

—Simone Weil

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

—Imre Lakatos

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

—Alan Watts

In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

—Albert Bushnell Hart

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

—Bertrand Russell