Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

William Robertson Smith

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Margaret Thatcher

Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.

Vaclav Havel

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

John Pierpont Morgan

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

Chinese Proverb

The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;All through her silent watches, gliding slow,Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

William Cullen Bryant, Hymn to t

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie EbnerEschenbach

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Vaclav Havel

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Mason Cooley

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Penn State is a leader in food science.

Don Sherwood