I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Simone Weil

If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.

C.S. Lewis

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Christian Lous Lange

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

Ted Nugent

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Henry David Thoreau

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.

Sir Aubrey De Vere

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

David Hockney

She did not want to say it, because it made no practical sense, but in the end she went to Japan for the delicate sake cups, resting in her hand like a blossom; she went to Japan for loveliness.

Z.Z. Packer

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Leo Tolstoy

The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.

Buddy Wakefield

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Publilius Syrus