Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

P. J. O'Rourke

Imagination is not the talent of some men, but is the health of every man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as I love Beauty I am young.

W. H. Davies

It has become extremely questionable whether, in the flux of life, it is a genuinely worthwhile intellectual problem to seek to discover fixed and immutable ideas or absolutes. It is a more worthy intellectual task perhaps to learn to think dynamically and relationally rather than statically.

Karl Mannheim

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

Richard Simmons

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Jawaharlal Nehru

He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? Ecclesiasticus

Bible

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

Thomas Jefferson

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Orson Welles

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Sojourner Truth