We promise “till death do us part” when our love is young and good-looking and when life is full of promise, but it is in failure or decrepitude or at the hospital bed that we learn what we meant and why.

— Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought

Postmodernism is the academic far Left’s epistemological strategy for responding to the crisis caused by the failures of socialism in theory and in practice.

— Stephen R. C. Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism

Ask yourself, “How would we work if we had enough time?” If the answer is wildly different from what you are actually doing, then no, there is not enough time to do your work.

— Kent Beck, Tidy First?

If it turns out that all this time we have merely been studying the programming of a cosmic planetarium, then that would merely mean that we have been studying a smaller portion of reality than we thought. So what? Such things have happened many times in the history of science, as our horizons have expanded beyond the Earth to include the solar system, our Galaxy, other galaxies, clusters of galaxies and so on, and, of course, parallel universes.

— David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality

…a person who only develops his body lives a life that is just as unbalanced as someone who only uses his head. Both extremes are an expression of a warped way of life.

— Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller (Translator), Sophie’s World