The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Frank Moore Colby, 1926

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

George Combe

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Stephen Covey

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Henry David Thoreau

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.

Joe Louis

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

John Donne

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

E. W. Howe

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Mary Baker Eddy

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

Vince Gill

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

William Shenstone

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

Albert Camus

Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

H.P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft