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Che Guevara: Many will call...

Che Guevara: Many will call...

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to...

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Please don't lie...

Please don't lie...

Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.

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The thought that...

The thought that...

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keep us going.

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Authoritarian political ideologies...

Authoritarian political ideologies...

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by...

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God forbid that...

God forbid that...

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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The more one...

The more one...

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Source: In The Peter Pyramid, by...

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Arguments about Scripture...

Arguments about Scripture...

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Source:...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: The general who...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: The general who...

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect...

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Siegfried Sassoon: Soldiers and dreamers;...

Siegfried Sassoon: Soldiers and dreamers;...

Soldiers and dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of fire lit homes, clean beds, and...

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Jacques Barzun: Only a great...

Jacques Barzun: Only a great...

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Austin O'Malley: A hole is...

Austin O'Malley: A hole is...

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

Source: In The Wit and...

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Claude Bernard: It is what...

Claude Bernard: It is what...

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Source:...

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Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

Stephen Leacock: The classics are...

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong in the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music...

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Benjamin Jowett: My dear child,...

Benjamin Jowett: My dear child,...

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tell you.

Source: In...

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Of all these...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: Of all these...

Of all these questions the one he asks most insistently is about man. How does he walk? How does the heart pump blood?...

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Carl Sagan: The gears of...

Carl Sagan: The gears of...

The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure...

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Stephen Leacock: A half truth,...

Stephen Leacock: A half truth,...

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: It is hard...

Friedrich Nietzsche: It is hard...

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

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Guillaume Apollinaire: A structure becomes...

Guillaume Apollinaire: A structure becomes...

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in...

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