Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
CARL SAGANPerhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
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The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.
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We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
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Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.
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Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
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Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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