Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

Superstition saw Something it had never seen before: Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear, Beauty so sudden for that time of year.

Jean Toomer

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

E'yen A. Gardner

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Colin R. Davis

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

Joseph Brodsky

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

Douglas Adams

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Hans Kung

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Jean de La Fontaine

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion

Albert Camus

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is our freedom.

Milan Kundera

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Mickey Rooney

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on I am not too sure.

H. L. Mencken