Cosmopoetica

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H.G. Wells Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work. Nat King Cole Education is not the filling of a pail, but the […] More

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph: with time it fades. Carmen Sylva Friendship is the soul’s voluntary imprisonment in a stranger’s body. Dimitrie Cantemir If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte Friendship make prosperity more […] More

Of two kinds of temporary insanity, one ends in suicide, the other in marriage. Ambrose Bierce The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place. Sacha Guitry A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. Michel de Montaigne Choose in marriage only […] More

  In politics, the truth has to wait until someone needs it. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. Richard Nixon One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato Politics is supposed […] More

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination. Albert Einstein Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Marquis de Sade I try to decorate my imagination as much as […] More

  No religion is worth a drop of blood. Marquis de Sade Religion is a defense against the experience of God. Carl Gustav Jung To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Luis Borges This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. […] More

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Ernest Rutherford Marketing is science able to sell the demon hooves as angel wings! Octav Bibere Science is nothing but perception. Plato Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of […] More

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. Bruce Lee All our dreams can come true, […] More