You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor.
Ambrose Bierce
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.
Kahlil Gibran
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.
Oscar Wilde
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
Aldous Huxley
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
Albert Einstein
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.
Kurt Vonnegut
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
Virginia Woolf
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
Ernest Hemingway
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Monroe Schulz
Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.
Neil Gaiman
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
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