In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.

Hakeem Olajuwon

Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.

Orson Scott Card

All that the hand of man can uprear, is either overturned by the hand of man, or at length by standing and continuing consumed: as if there were a secret opposition in Fate (the unevitable decree of the Eternal) to control our industry, and countercheck all our devices and proposing. Possessions are not enduring, children lose their names. . . .

William Drummond

Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

El llanto es tan saludable como el sudor, y más poético. Hay que aplicarlo siempre que sea posible como la medicina antigua aplicaba la sangría.

Alejandro Casona

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Brigitte Bardot

The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

George Santayana

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said:

Halford E. Luccock

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

Jodi Picoult

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

Susan L. Taylor

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

Hailliard

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson