![Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.](/assets/img/quote-photos/oh-my-dear-kepler-how-i-wish-that-we-could-have-one-hearty-laugh-together-here.jpg)
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Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost. Roberto Bolano
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I had no real direction at all in my 20's and so I did what a lot of people without direction do: I took an acting class. In one of those first days of the class, I did this weird, silly improv, and it got laughs. It was such a blissful moment. I've never gotten over that love of hearing laughter. As a people pleaser, it's the drug of choice for me. Ty Burrell
laughter blow shock-absorber
Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life. Yogi Berra
laughter what-is-life
What is life without laughter? Trenton Lee Stewart
laughter said pardon
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company. Samuel Johnson
laughter purpose twins
Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other. Robert K. Greenleaf
laughter tragedy representatives
Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away. Wyndham Lewis
laughter independent important
Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.
philosophy science engineering
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. Richard P. Feynman
philosophy design innovation
When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'. Roger Martin
philosophy ideas should
Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness. Umberto Eco
philosophy believe opportunity
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen. Reid Hoffman
philosophy discovery political
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. William Kristol
philosophy law medicine
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change. William James
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
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Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
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If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus. Robin Williams
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After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn. Wallace Stevens
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I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon. Whoopi Goldberg
moon cheerful earth
I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally. Yuri Gagarin
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Heaven cannot but be high. Earth cannot but be broad. The sun and moon cannot but revolve. All creation cannot but flourish. To do so is their TAO. But it is not from extensive study that this may be known, nor by dialectical skill that his may be made clear. The true sage will have none of these. Zhuangzi
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.
moon two mars
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. Walter Lang
moon unity earth
The planets are not hunks of stuff out there but nodes of vibration that resonate in multiple dimensions that enfold themselves into one another in patterns of complex recursiveness in which Sun, Moon, and Saturn are also modalities of Earth. William Irwin Thompson