Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.Voltaire
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.Karl Marx
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.Plato
Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.Stephen Hawking
