On the Shoulder of Giants

Plato

There is an eye of the soul that is more precious than ten-thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

[Beauty] is eternal, unproduced, indestructible; neither subject to increase or decay... All other things are beautiful through a participation of it...This is the divine and pure...the beautiful itself.

Life must be lived as play.

Filippo Brunelleschi

I can already envisage the completed vaulting...

Nicolaus Copernicus

The speculations of a philosopher are far removed from the judgement of the multitude, for his aim is to seek truth in all things.

Queen Elizabeth I

I thank God that I am endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of realm in my petticoat, I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

Video et taceo ( I see but say nothing ) - Elizabeth I's Motto

William Shakespeare

To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause. (HAMLET)

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances,

And one man in his time plays many parts. (AS YOU LIKE IT)

Thomas Jefferson

Almighty God hath created the mind free.

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I cannot live without books.

Above all things, and at all times, practise yourself in good humor; this is of all human qualities is the most amiable and endearing to society.

Encourgae all your virtuous dispositions, exercise them whenever opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise as a limb of the body does, that exersie will make them habitual.

Of all exercise walking is best...No one knows, till he tries, how easily a habit of walking is acquired...I have known some great walkers...and I never knew or heard of one who was not healthy and long-lived.

I find friendship to be like wine...ripened with age, the true restorative cordial.

Mahatma Gandhi

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world...Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action...

Albert Einstein

Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

There are only two ways to live your life: one is as if everything is a miracle, the other is as though nothing is a miracle.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and mind.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.

But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.