The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness.
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.
They move on. They move away.
The moments that used to define them are covered by
moments of their own accomplishments.
It is not until much later, that
children understand;
their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories
of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones,
beneath the water of their lives
The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit;
that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
people who have never dared to look into the depths of their soul,
never attempted to know the origin of that desire to unleash the wild beast,
or to understand that sex, pain and love are all extreme experiences.
Only those who know those frontiers know life;
everything else is just passing the time,
repeating the same tasks,
growing old and dying
without ever having discovered what we are doing here
Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance,
but simply because they no longer lead somewhere
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow.
Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow.
You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task
In metric,
one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter,
weighs one gram,
and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade
—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point.
An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.