Robert Grossmith > Robert's Quotes

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years go by, and it is a mere chapter -- if not a paragraph or proper noun -- in the history of philosophy.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.”
― Peter Cook

“Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”
― Vladimir Nabokov