"When you follow your bliss...
doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors..."
[Joseph Campbell, mythologist/writer]

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
[Albert Einstein, physicist/author]

"[Einstein's] discovery of relativity taught us that in physics the division of space-time into past, present and future is an illusion. He also understood that this division is as illusory in human affairs as it is in physics."
Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe, Physicist & Mathematician]

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
[Alvin Toffler, Futurist/Writer]

"Our culture is the predominance of an idea which draws after it this train of cities and institutions. Let us rise into another idea: they will disappear."
[Henry David Thoreau, author/philospher/naturalist]

"The function of art is to imitate nature in her manner of operation, and nature operates from chance. Simple minds cling to the illusion of an orderly, powerful universe because it gives them a sense of security."
[John Cage, composer/author]

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie."
[Aldous Huxley, author/philosopher]

"The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette..."
[Hermann Hesse, "Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game"]

"The question of the archive is not a question of the past. It is not the question of the concept dealing with the past that might already be at our disposal. It is a question of the future, the question of the future itself, the question of a response, of a promise, and of a responsibility for tomorrow."
[Jacques Derrida, author/philosopher, "Archive Fever"]

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened."
[Douglas Adams, "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"]

"There are solutions to the major problems of our time, some of them even simple. But they require a radical shift in our perceptions, our thinking, and our values."
[Fritjof Capra, physicist/author, "Web of Life"]