Eowyn Dean

“The most beautiful thing we can experience,’ he said, ‘is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
― George Santayana

“The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination enough to sympathize with their proper needs nor humility enough to respect them as if they were his own. Arrogance, fanaticism, meddlesomeness, and imperialism may then masquerade as philanthropy.”
― George Santayana, The Birth of Reason and Other Essays

“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.”
― David Bowie