

“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge, alike of the objects themselves and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed.”
― Critique of Pure Reason
― Critique of Pure Reason

“Even their stable societies oscillated between banquets and barbarism.”
― Shipstar
― Shipstar

“Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. Consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love and anger.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.”
― Sons and Lovers
― Sons and Lovers

“I don’t want the corpses of flowers about me.”
― Sons and Lovers
― Sons and Lovers
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