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Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

~ Jean Cocteau

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Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

~ Felix Alba-Juez

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There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.

~ Toba Beta

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When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.

~ Liezi

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Smartass Disciple: If you are really a master, then make me see miracles!Master of Stupidity: Go to sleep and dream, then wake up thirty years later!

~ Toba Beta

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Time is an illusion.

~ Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Relativity Time

Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Feeling Relativity Time Waiting

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

~ Steve Toltz

Steve Toltz Anticipation Humor Relativity Suspense Time

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

~ Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins Morning New Orleans Night Relativity Time

I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose it didn’t really matter. I even had a theory that time didn’t go in straight line at all. I knew I was no Albert Einstein, but I had the sneaking suspicion that everything had happened, was happening, or would happen was really happening all the time. There was no past, present, and future. Everything was going on all at once and forever. If that was true, then each moment was eternity.

~ Mark A. Roeder

Mark A. Roeder Relativity Time

Changes is the mother of time. Absence of changes makes no time.

~ Toba Beta

Toba Beta Changes Perceive Reality Relativity Subjectivity Time

If a photon is emitted by an electron inside of a clock on Earth and it travels to a clock four light years away, time stops for the clock on Earth and time jumps forward eight years for the distant clock, also the electron that will capture the photon becomes infinitely large, relative to the photon but the electron that emitted it does not become infinitely small therefore, time is not perfectly symmetrical.

~ R.a.delmonico

R.a.delmonico Relativity Space Time

All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!(The Jelly-Fish)

~ David H. Keller

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I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15!

~ Ray D'inverno

Ray D'inverno Relativity Science

Mankind has uncovered two extremely efficient theories: one that describes our universe's structure (Einstein's gravity: the theory of general relativity), and one that describes everything our universe contains (quantum field theory), and these two theories won't talk to each other.

~ Christophe Galfard

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If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

~ Criss Jami

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A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.

~ Lord Mahavira

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A non-religious prison when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.

~ Lord Mahavira

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In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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That had always been the beauty of the wind. It could only be seen through its actions, its effect on others. A gentle reminder that reality does not only exist in the seeable, the palpable, the understandable, but also in the figments and daydreams, the steadfast beliefs and unexplainable uncertainties. Reality is seen and yet unseen. Wholly and absolutely relative. The wind had taught him that.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

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Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

~ Criss Jami

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Our perception of space-time can be thought of in terms of event coordinates relative to our current state of consciousness.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it.

~ Alan W. Watts

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What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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Some people aren’t really light-teethed, they’re merely dark-skinned.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The source of all light is in the eye.

~ Alan W. Watts

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To gain height, lose all your tall friends.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Friends Height Relativity

When you look at another person, see them as an extension of your thought or feeling. What you two thought or felt THEN, magnetically connected you two NOW.

~ Franklin Gillette

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Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, that is to say, according to one's own circumstances, culture, and situation in life.

~ Pope Francis

Pope Francis Life Relativity Self Truth

A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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A man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor E. Frankl Relativity Suffering

Religion isn't bad, it's our consciousness relativity to religion. There's a reason Mahatma Ghandi said I like your Christ, I don't like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. The principle is that religion doesn't make 'you'. 'You' make your 'religion'.

~ Matthew Donnelly

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The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern 'knowledge' is that it is wrong.The young man then quoted with approval what Socrates had said on learning that the Delphic oracle had proclaimed him the wisest man in Greece. 'If I am the wisest man,' said Socrates, 'it is because I alone know that I know nothing.' The implication was that I was very foolish because I was under the impression I knew a great deal.Alas, none of this was new to me. (There is very little that is new to me; I wish my correspondents would realize this.) This particular theme was addressed to me a quarter of a century ago by John Campbell, who specialized in irritating me. He also told me that all theories are proven wrong in time.My answer to him was, 'John, when people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

~ Isaac Asimov

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Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

~ Arthur Stanley Eddington

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The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

~ Yuval Ne'eman

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If all meaning were relative, then the meanings of the terms in the proposition All meaning is relative would be relative. Therefore the proposition All meaning is relative destroys itself. It is nothing but an evasion of reality. That seems a high price to pay, even for the privilege of killing people.

~ J. Budziszewski

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Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.

~ Albert Einstein

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Let's fly away and live forever

~ Orson Scott Card

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