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Man forgives women...

Man forgives women...

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Honesty is stronger...

Honesty is stronger...

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often hides.

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Walt Whitman who...

Walt Whitman who...

Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a...

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In university they...

In university they...

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate...

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Vatican II was...

Vatican II was...

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th...

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The more I...

The more I...

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. . . . this spontaneous talking back to a book [is] one of the things...

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Joseph Brodsky: The poetic notion...

Joseph Brodsky: The poetic notion...

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

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Stanislaw Lec: What a pity...

Stanislaw Lec: What a pity...

What a pity the only way to heaven is in a hearse.

Source:
-- Stanislaw Lec,...

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Carl Linnaeus: A practical botanist...

Carl Linnaeus: A practical botanist...

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet...

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G C Lichtenberg: One cannot demand...

G C Lichtenberg: One cannot demand...

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reason respects differences,...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reason respects differences,...

Reason respects differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The world which...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The world which...

The world which credits what is done
Is cold to all that might have been.


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Michel Foucault: As the archeology...

Michel Foucault: As the archeology...

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its...

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Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only...

Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only...

It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Source: Remark to De Pradt...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: I conjure you,...

Friedrich Nietzsche: I conjure you,...

I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you of...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Uttering a word...

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Uttering a word...

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Source:...

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George Eliot: Iteration, like friction,...

George Eliot: Iteration, like friction,...

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Source:...

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Aldous Huxley: It is far...

Aldous Huxley: It is far...

It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than...

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Publilius Syrus: It is a...

Publilius Syrus: It is a...

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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