In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Jacob Bronowski, The Sense of Hu

Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

Sam Harris

Though the encouragement of exportation and the discouragement of importation are the two great engines by which the mercantile system proposes to enrich every country, yet with regard to some particular commodities it seems to follow an opposite plan: to discourage exportation and to encourage importation. Its ultimate object, however, it pretends, is always the same, to enrich the country by the advantageous balance of trade. It discourages the exportation of the materials of manufacture, and of the instruments of trade, in order to give our own workmen an advantage, and to enable them to undersell those of other nations in all foreign markets; and by restraining, in this manner, the exportation of a few commodities of no great price, it proposes to occasion a much greater and more valuable exportation of others. It encourages the importation of the materials of manufacture in order that our own people may be enabled to work them up more cheaply, and thereby prevent a greater and more valuable importation of the manufactured commodities.

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, B

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.

Oliver Goldsmith

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

E. M. Forster

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

Timbaland

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

Kenneth Miller

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Are you angry that others disappoint you? remember you cannot depend upon yourself

Benjamin Franklin