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Andre Gide: One doesn't discover...

Andre Gide: One doesn't discover...

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long...

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Edward Hoagland: Like a kick...

Edward Hoagland: Like a kick...

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

Source:...

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George Moore: A very slight...

George Moore: A very slight...

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Let this great...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Let this great...

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide --
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...

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Georges Bernanos: A thought which...

Georges Bernanos: A thought which...

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is...

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Willa Cather: Art should simplify....

Willa Cather: Art should simplify....

Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...

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Epicurus: The time when...

Epicurus: The time when...

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a...

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Henri Bergson: An absolute can...

Henri Bergson: An absolute can...

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

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Mortimer Adler: Ask others about...

Mortimer Adler: Ask others about...

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about...

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Albert Camus: To know oneself,...

Albert Camus: To know oneself,...

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: What is the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: What is the...

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Reckoned physiologically, everything...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Reckoned physiologically, everything...

Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: That which does...

Friedrich Nietzsche: That which does...

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Source: 'Twilight of the...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Experience, as a...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Experience, as a...

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an...

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Karl Popper: Science must begin...

Karl Popper: Science must begin...

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Source: British...

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Thomas Merton: A daydream is...

Thomas Merton: A daydream is...

A daydream is an evasion.

Source: Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, Doubleday...

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Thomas Merton: Technology is not...

Thomas Merton: Technology is not...

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great...

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Luc De Clapiers: More are taken...

Luc De Clapiers: More are taken...

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Thomas ? Kempis: The reflections on...

Thomas ? Kempis: The reflections on...

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand...

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