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Brigham Young: We want men...

Brigham Young: We want men...

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or...

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St Francis of Assisi: Grant that we...

St Francis of Assisi: Grant that we...

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

Source: In My...

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Robert Burton: Old friends become...

Robert Burton: Old friends become...

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Source:...

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Mary Daly: Courage to be...

Mary Daly: Courage to be...

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Source: In...

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I would like...

I would like...

I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at...

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. . ....

. . ....

. . . and we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there was only joy in the...

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Illness is the...

Illness is the...

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the...

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Perversity is the...

Perversity is the...

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Source: Against Interpretation,...

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The love of...

The love of...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...

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The ideology of...

The ideology of...

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of...

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The truth is...

The truth is...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there...

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No one is...

No one is...

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is...

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The future is...

The future is...

The future is . . . black.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the Week', 25 Aug...

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There are few...

There are few...

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the...

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Venerate art as...

Venerate art as...

Venerate art as art.

Source: On Patronage
-- William Hazlitt, (Apr 10...

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He who asks...

He who asks...

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste...

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One set of...

One set of...

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse...

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The aim of...

The aim of...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more,...

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The hard truth...

The hard truth...

The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes...

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The truth is...

The truth is...

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton,...

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