Linux Wisdom

What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing
to compare it with.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
                -- Ursula K. LeGuin

What we Are is God's gift to us.
What we Become is our gift to God.

Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil.
                -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
                -- Gandhi

When it's dark enough you can see the stars.
                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

When the speaker and he to whom he is speaks do not understand, that is
metaphysics.
                -- Voltaire

When the wind is great, bow before it;
when the wind is heavy, yield to it.

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later
something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend
your parents' limitations...  At the same time, you feel sure that in all
the wilderness of possibility; in all the forests of opinion, there is a
vital something that can be known -- known and grasped.  That we will
eventually know it, and convert the whole mystery into a coherent
narrative.  So that then one's true life -- the point of everything --
will emerge from the mist into a pure light, into total comprehension.
But it isn't like that at all.  But if it isn't, where did the idea come
from, to torture and unsettle us?
                -- Brian Aldiss, "Helliconia Summer"

When you die, you lose a very important part of your life.
                -- Brooke Shields