Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as projected to us by satellite... the greatness of the experience goes beyond your ethical and aesthetic judgment, cutting you free from the binding ego of yourself. With the diminishment of your ego, the less there is of you, the more you see the sublime.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

Oscar Wilde

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Kahlil Gibran

He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

Don Marquis

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Plutarch

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.

Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

Michael Behe

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Bette Davis

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

Harold Pinter

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

Thinking that it was time to bring down the Monarch from his raptures to the level of common sense, I determined to endeavour to open up to him some glimpses of the truth, that is to say of the nature of things in Flatland.

Edwin Abbott Abbott

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen

There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.

General Douglas MacArthur, In hi