Bert Speelpenning

Raffiniert is der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist Er nicht!
-- Albert Einstein

Wily is the Lord, but malicious he's not!
(usually seen as: God is subtle, but not malicious)

At every stage of development, the next higher stage always appears to be a completely "other world," an "invisible world" - it has literally no existence for the individual, even though the individual is in fact saturated with a reality that contains the "other" world.  The individual's "this-worldly" existence simply cannot comprehend the "other-worldly" characteristics lying all around it.  At the same time, these higher or deeper worldspaces are not located elsewhere in space-time.  They are located here, in deeper perceptions of this world.  Other worlds become this world with increasing development and evolution.
-- Ken Wilber

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller

In times of change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Eric Hoffer

If I don't fly, someone else will.  The Spirit wants only that there be flying.
As to who happens to do it, She has only a passing interest.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last!  Free at last!  Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
-- Martin Luther King

Ik zit mij voor het vensterglas
onnoemelijk te vervelen.
Ik wou dat ik twee hondjes was
dan kon ik samen spelen.
-- Godfried Bomans

I sit at home and I'm so bored -
it is such lousy weather.
I wish I were two little dogs
so I could play together.

[Man] is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing. -- Eric Hoffer

The destiny of men and women is to create a new world, to reveal a new life, to remember that there exists a frontier for everything except dreams. [..]
In history there are no solitary dreams; one dreamer breathes life into the next.
-- Sebastião Salgado