Quotations
"The purpose of life is to love and to increase our knowledge of the intricacies of creation."-Anne Rice, Servant of the Bones
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."-Albert Einstein
"Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race has ever received."- Lorien, Babylon 5
"I want to believe ...."-Fox Mulder, The X-Files
"Understanding is a three-edged sword. [There are three sides to every conflict. Their side. Your side. And the truth.]"-Kosh and John Sheridan, Babylon 5 
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."-Lao Tzu
"Sometimes you have to exagerate things to make a point."- Captain Sheridan, Babylon 5
"I am the Master of this College; What I don't know isn't knowledge."- Balliol
"Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range"- Rochefoucauld
"The quiet ones are the ones who change the universe. The loud ones only take the credit."-Londo Mollori, Babylon 5
"En To Pan (All is One)"- Greek ouroboros inscription
"How do we learn about the present? We look to the past."-Fox Mulder, The X-Files
"Understand and you are liberated"- Buddhist monk, MillenniuM
"Sometimes people walk away because they want to be alone. And sometimes people walk away because they want to see if you care enough to follow them into Hell."-Michael Garibaldi, Babylon 5
"Something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it."- Albert Hosteen, The X-Files
"Everything is becoming, nothing is."- Plato
"Ars totum requirit hominem (The art requires the whole man)"- alchemical saying
"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them."-Erich Fromm
"The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you're done."- Phil Kircher
"Work is the curse of the thinking classes"- Oscar Wilde
"We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented."-Christof, The Truman Show
"I must study politics and war so that my sons may study mathematics and science ... so that their sons may study painting."-John Adams
"Truth is one: sages call it by different names."- The Vedas
"And music ... that [says] better than words that there is hope and love, and the promise of tomorrow."- J. Michael Straczynski
"One moment of perfect beauty ...."- Kosh, Babylon 5
"Faith is believing what you know isn't true."- Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey
"... the world doesn't understand people who are pure of heart, it's made for people who cannot trust each other, and who are not trustworthy themselves."- Anne Rice, The Feast of All Saints
"They say genius is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time."-Peter Watts, MillenniuM
"It's not the talking that's the problem, it's the listening"- Vir Cotto, Babylon, 5
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."- Abraham Lincoln
"... the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated."-George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"How the world still dearly loves a cage."-Maude, Harold and Maude
"It is right that what all adore should be deemed one. We all look up at the same stars. We share a common sky. A common firmament encompasses us. What matters it by what kind of learned theory each man looketh for the truth? There is no one way that will take us to so mighty a secret."- Symmachus
"Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
"You do not wish to KNOW anything! You wish only to speak. That which you know, you ignore because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, you invent."- Ambassador Delenn, Babylon 5
"God be between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk."-Egyptian blessing
"We are the sum of our tears. Too little, and the ground is not fertile and nothing can grow. Too much and the best of us is washed away. My rains have come and gone. Yours are just beginning."- G'Kar, Babylon 5
"What we perceive as God is a byproduct of our search for God."-G'Kar, Babylon 5
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."- Cicero
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desparation."- Henry David Thoreau
"... the meaning of remembrance and ... the purpose of art is to bind people around a belief in continuity ... Music is the sound of something that is passed on."- Enya
"If you believe in the light, it's because of obscurity; if you believe in joy, it's because of sadness; if you beleive in God, then you have to believe in the Devil"- Enigma, "The Rivers of Belief" Enigma: MCMXC A.D.
"Anything that's strange is no good to the average American ... it's nonsense."- Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
"The whole point of the idea of God was to encourage a sense of the mystery and wonder of life, not to find neat solutions."- Karen Armstrong, A History of God
"The unexamined life is not worth living."- Socrates
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."- Keats
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."- Aristotle
"I cannot give you what you deny yourself. Look for solutions from within...."- Kai Opaka, "Emissary" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"Evil is a point of view."- Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview with the Vampire
"Philosophy begins in wonder."- Plato
"A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the 'One and Only' to anyone."- Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
"I am both terrified and reassured that there are still mysteries in the universe."- Ambassador G'Kar, Babylon 5
"There is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which carries me out of the common pathways of men ...."- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
"... the never-ending pusuit of ways to use sophisticated technology to accomplish useless things."- John Schwartz, The New York Times
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow."- Ursula LeGuin, The Wizard of EarthSea
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."- Albert Einstein
"We are the universe trying to understand itself."-Delenn, Babylon 5
Dialogues
Sheridan: "I never thought there could be anything worse than feeling all alone in the night."
Delenn: "But there is. Feeling all alone in a crowd."
- "All Alone in the Night" Babylon 5
Lorien: "It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?"
Sheridan: "I can't see you anymore."
Lorien: "As it should be."
Sheridan: "If I fall, how will I know if you'll catch me?"
Lorien: "I caught you before."
Sheridan: "If I die?"
Lorien: "I cannot create life, but I can breath on the remaining embers. It may not work."
Sheridan: "But I can hope."
Lorien: "Hope is all we have. Do you have anything worth living for?"
Delenn: "Sleep now. I will watch and catch you if you should fall."
Sheridan: "Delenn!"
- "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" Babylon 5
Armand: "But perhaps, this is the only real evil left."
Louis: "Then God does not exist."
Armand: "I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. And as far as I know, after four hundred years, I am the oldest living vampire in the world."
- Interview with the Vampire
