1) There is nothing so inconceivable as that matter should be conscious of itself. (n’y ayant rien de si inconcevable que de dire que la matière se connaît soi-même) – Pascal
2) When philosophers have subdued their passions, what material substance has managed to achieve this? — Pascal
3) Conscious subjects and their mental lives are inescapable components of reality not describable by the physical sciences. — Thomas Nagel
4) You cannot think about thinking without thinking about thinking about something. — Seymour Papert
5) You do not reason a man out of something he was not reasoned into. – Jonathan Swift
6) In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few. — Shunryu Suzuki
7) The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. -- Samuel Johnson
8) Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; and what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -- Christopher Hitchens
9) All history is the history of thought ; and when an historian says that a man is in a certain situation this is the same as saying that he thinks he is in this situation. The hard facts of the situation, which it is so important for him to face, are the hard facts of the way in which he conceives the situation. -- R.G. Collingwood
10) The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. (L'univers est construit sur un plan dont la symétrie profonde est en quelque sorte, présente dans l'intime structure de notre esprit.) -- Paul Valery
11) Mysticism is the attempt to get rid of mystery. -- Roger Fry
12) Water has different physical and chemical properties than its constituent elements of hydrogen and oxygen. The complexity of organization may determine the emergence of new properties nonexistent in the simpler building blocks. -- José Delgado
13) Art can bring us consolation as individuals, but it is powerless against reality. — Romain Rolland
14) Some people, in their national vanity, are insatiable in their desire for sacrifices from others. — Stefan Zweig
15) Human action, in other words, is explained not only by physiology, or by desires, but by judgments. — Thomas Nagel
15) A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills. — Schopenhauer
