What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world -- to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

George Orwell

If my God damns people for love but saves them for brutle warfare, then that is not the God I know or wish to worship.

Cristina Marrero

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.

Annie Elizabeth Delany, Having O

Ignorance doesn't kill you, but it makes you sweat a lot.

Proverb

The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.

Eric Parslow

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Samuel Butler

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Eoin Colfer

America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.

Katherine Lee Bates

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Voltaire

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Michael Sinz