Making sense Quote by Philip K. Dick

“Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of…

— Mark Slouka

“Oh, it’s a fine life, the life of the gutter. It’s real: it’s warm: it’s violent: you can feel it through the thickest skin:…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Picciola!’ said the Doctor to himself; and aloud, ‘Then you have time to enjoy them?’ ‘When we are at work at a distance, dinner…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“The splendor of the salmon canapés radiant with mayonnaise disappears, swallowed by the dark shopping bags of the customers. Certainly every one of these…

— Italo Calvino

“When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.”

— Carl Sagan

“Is this the highest point of reason, to realize that the soil beneath our feet is shifting, to pompously name ‘interrogation’ what is only…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The reality is that society had gotten too fast, noisy, and stressful for the human brain to process and everybody was ingesting something to…

— David Wong

“I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the…

— Umberto Eco

“You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came…

— Anonymous

“...it was difficult for me to trust in the medicinal teaching that we must recognize friction and the not-so-good circumstances in life as being…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure out how…

— Carl Sagan