Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau

They Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.( Time Magazine, August 7, 2005)

Steven Pinker

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Antonin Artaud

In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.

Terry Eagleton

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Oscar Niemeyer

I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.

James Joyce

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Roger Penrose

Friends are thieves of time.

Francis Bacon

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

Aberjhani

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

Morgan Brittany