science

"The phenomenon of the will [in Epictetus ] [...] a different mental ability whose chief characteristic is that it speaks an imperative even when it commands nothing but our ability to think. The goal …"

"My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt."

"In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in t…"

"The evolution of the worlds cannot be considered apart from the evolution of everything created."

"Correctly conceived nothing in nature springs into existence suddenly all being subjected to the same law of gradual evolution. Realize but once the process of the maha cycle, of one sphere and you ha…"

"We all start out looking at life from the particular perspective of our upbringing, which provides us with assumptions about who we are. For most of us, this culturally imparted point of view simply r…"

"It is time to leave behind childish attitudes and begin to pay a little more attention to what is really here. This is a time-body, a mortal body, but an immortal presence is moving in it. While the b…"

"Men of acute mind call me an ascetic, but they are wrong in their diagnosis. Although I disciplined my desires, I only abandoned worldly pleasures because the best of these withdrew themselves from me…"

"“Writing has changed me in many ways. My views and perception of things has taken a dynamic form. I don’t see things in one perspective.”"

"It has been surreal and amazing too. Sometimes I don’t grasp the reality of it until someone points it out because you’re always on the move with stories and you don’t pause to settle in the moment. I…"

"I wouldn’t say it was a conscious choice, it was more of being called to it,” she said in an interview. Speculative fiction, surrealism, magical realism, all these genres. To be honest, I just wrote s…"

""I am a Gambian. A Gambian in voluntary self-imposed exile, in that I chose to stay and work outside The Gambia. But I am an African in so far as I identify myself with the total continental reality,""

"Becoming a social worker was without a doubt the only choice of my life. I believed that it would allow me to bring knowledge to those who had been excluded in the villages, to be their spokesperson w…"

""We don’t teach that. I think we teach science, and we teach circuitry and you have to tick the box, but we don’t say, ‘The world is out there, go build.’""

""Rather, what inspires me? Truth and the search for greater understanding. I don’t believe that we are fundamentally different from each other.""

"The dialogue that carries us from knowledge to awareness, and from awareness to commitment."

"To be free in my mind means you must also be physically free, able to use your own body."

"To be in prison, alright, but to have a mind free to wander."

"Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it."

"“I think we have to look at the fact that during this World Cup, we were coming off back-to-back victories. You can’t ignore the way this program has led (soccer) for over twenty-plus years from one b…"