We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

Mahatma Gandhi

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

Herb Cohen

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Gerald F. Lieberman

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by patriotism I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

Erich Fromm

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

J. August Strindberg

How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Thomas Kempis

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

Let guilty men remember, their black deedsDo lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

John Webster, The White Devil; (

In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually.

Victor Hugo

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin