Poems List

History is like a ghost. It is as dead as alive.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.

Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes.

I wish I can enjoy no food but food for thought.

That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The speciality of the future is generalism.

There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

Take my hand And lead me to salvation Take my love For love is everlasting And remember The truth that once was spoken To love another person Is to see the face of God.

They often say, “What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?”. Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

What then have I done What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condenced, the deeper they burn.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.