Aaron Dunbar > Aaron's Quotes

“God's only excuse is that he does not exist”
― Stendhal

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“Not only did many American doctors not believe in germs, they took pride in the particular brand of filth that defined their profession. They spoke fondly of the “good old surgical stink” that pervaded their hospitals and operating rooms, and they resisted making too many concessions even to basic hygiene.”
― Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

“One mind is enough for a thousand hands.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.”
― Karl Marx

“Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.”
― Gorgias

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis