Joseph Harriott

“If a person knows not that he knows not, ignore him. If he knows that he knows not, go teach him. If he knows that he knows, go learn from him.”
― Swami Satchidananda, The Living Gita: The Complete Bhagavad Gita: a Commentary for Modern Readers

“A more ambitious bet would be to learn from what we imagine a more mature civilization might have attempted. To take the small scientific leap and allow the possibility ‘Oumuamua was extraterrestrial technology is to give humanity the small nudge toward thinking like a civilization that could have left a lightsail buoy for our solar system to run into. It is to nudge us not just to imagine alien spacecraft but to contemplate the construction of our own such craft.”
― Avi Loeb, Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

“When happiness comes along, enjoy it while it lasts because it will not be permanent. You should not try hold onto it as if it were permanent because when it leaves, it will upset you.”
― David Tuffley, The Essence of Buddhism

“The third noble truth holds that you can end your suffering by eliminating the desire for sensual gratification and breaking the attachments you have to the egoic self and any of the other conceptual structures that are the furniture of your life.”
― David Tuffley, The Essence of Buddhism