Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know! ’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason..And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone,...
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Stephenie Meyer
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
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Blaise Pascal
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover,...
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William Shakespeare
Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not...
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Ally Condie
More Quotes By Claire Robertson
He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we who had provided the parameters would be fit within them. To...
There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.
Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know! ’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.
I do not like to think too much on this Africa. It is too large and too empty, ” he said. “People like De Buys, they astonish me with their courage — or perhaps it is a lack in them; they cannot imagine. I think...
