Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Werner Herzog

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Kary Mullis

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Charles Ives

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Karl Von Clausewitz

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

Chris Evans

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

Thomas Carlyle

There's no reward in life without risk.

Barry J. Farber

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

Karel Capek

Advertising is a racket...its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The CrackUp

Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather.

Japanese Proverb

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Thomas Frank