Universe, for reasons unknown

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects

O Livro-De-Tudo-O-Que-Desconhecemos-E-Que-Não-Podemos-Aspirar-A-Conhecer

(pelo menos enquanto não evoluirmos bastante mais)

Our Power

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of the Universe that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. ”

Marianne Williamson

Yes, i have an imaginative vision of what should be

Da coragem de ser diferente

"Torna-te quem tu és."

Friedrich Nietzsche

As tribos urbanas e a alienação da individualidade

"Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd."

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) 

Obedecer ao seu génio ou às suas insuficiências

"Para aquele que produz não há nenhuma prova mais séria do que procurar reconhecer se o que, de um passo para outro, o coage e previne é o seu verdadeiro génio ou a voz pusilânime das suas insuficiências: se, ao adquirir a forma, obedece ao que nele há de mais elevado ou de mais baixo."

Hugo Hofmannsthal, in "Livro Dos Amigos"

"Ohhh...Alright..." (1964) - Roy Lichtenstein

A diferença entre o génio e a inteligência normal

Friedrich Nietzsche

"A diferença entre o génio e a inteligência normal é, na verdade, apenas quantitativa, na medida em que é apenas uma diferença de grau: no entanto, as pessoas têm tendência para a considerar qualitativa, quando se observa como os homens normais, apesar da sua diversidade individual, pensam todos segundo certas linhas comuns, de modo que estão frequentemente em acordo unânime acerca de julgamentos que, na realidade, são falsos. Isto chega ao ponto de terem certas opiniões básicas que são mantidas em todas as eras e continuamente reiteradas, embora as grandes mentes de todas as eras tenham, aberta ou secretamente, oposto a essas opiniões."

Arthur Schopenhauer, in 'Aforismos'

Sigmund Freud

Heráclito de Éfeso

Demócrito de Abdera

         

The cathedral, the sand, the stars and emptiness

"Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral,

and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars."

James Jeans

Say it again, William

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

William Faulkner

Amazing - Aerosmith

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

William Faulkner

Stranger than fiction