"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being." - C. G. Jung Memories, Dreams, Reflections

"You're different now, so why not let everyone see Hobbes was only real because Calvin never ceased to believe."

"A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right." - Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin, 1973

"Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards" - Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855

"I think, therefore I am" -Descartes

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge." - Confucius, 511- 479 BC Analects

"It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problem with a mind free from bias" - Simone de Beavoir The Second Sex, 1953

"My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose" - J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Words, 1927

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent" -Sherlock Holmes, in Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlett, 1888

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society" -Krishnamurti, 1895 - 1986

"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal" -William James

"I do not believe that I am dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not."-Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970.

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere" -Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

"All I am is what I am after"

"Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light" - Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (1952)

"Not yet an interdisciplinary field: psychoceramics, the study of crackpots"

"At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes - an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive the may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new." -Carl Sagen (1987)

"We are all mad at sometime or another" -Battista Mantuanus Eclogues, 1500

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"-Mark Twain