One of the great philosophical debates of the centuries has been over the whole question of ends and means. In a real sense, the end is pre-existent in the means; the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process. In the long run of history, immoral means cannot bring about moral ends.

There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this - from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

Someone told me something that stuck with me 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while.

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.