"And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it."
— George Eliot (Middlemarch)

"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
— Umberto Eco

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. "
— Umberto Eco

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
— Albert Einstein