A. N. Whitehead:

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Samuel Butler (II):

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Kin Hubbard:

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

G.K. Chesterton:

Anything that is deliberate, twisted, created as a trap and a mystery, must be discovered at last; everything that is done naturally remains mysterious.

Freud:

The principal task of civilization, it's actual raison d' etre, is to defend us against nature.

Meister Eckhart:

Even stones have a love, a love that seeks the ground.

Emerson

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.

Emerson

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

J.B.S. Haldane

My suspicion is that the universe in not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

Prince De Ligne

The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you , close the book and meditate.

Nietzsche

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.

George Bernard Shaw:

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility of the future."

Voltaire:

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:

"The ultimate good is better reached by free trade in ideas."

Louisa May Alcott:

" I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."