Vilhjalmur stefansson quotes about beauty

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like; it is terrifying.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.

Vilhjalmur stefansson quotes about beauty

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare s