Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Rubaʿiyat (Quatrains), Stanza
Source: Bedil: Selected Poems, p. 53
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Trazem-me a fé como um embrulho fechado numa salva alheia. Querem que o aceite para que não o abra.
“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
“What are their thoughts to you or me, so long as we are satisfied with ourselves — and each other.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XII : A Tête-à-tête and a Discovery; Gilbert to Helen
Carol Shields (1935–2003) American author
Source: The Republic of Love
Juliana Hatfield (1967) American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author
"Total System Failure"
Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure (2000)
Anton LaVey book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space architect
Banquet speech on the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, Royal Oaks Country Club, Titusville (15 July 1969); quoted in "Of a Fire on the Moon", LIFEmagazine (29 August 1969), 67, No. 9, p. 34
Context: If our intention had been merely to bring back a handful of soil and rocks from the lunar gravel pit and then forget the whole thing, we would certainly be history's biggest fools. But that is not our intention now — it never will be. What we are seeking in tomorrow's trip is indeed that key to our future on earth. We are expanding the mind of man. We are extending this God-given brain and these God-given hands to their outermost limits and in so doing all mankind will benefit. All mankind will reap the harvest. … What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.