The strongest proof that in the name of science we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a science of punishment.

ou nous ne sommes pas libres et Dieu tout-puissant est responsable du mal. Ou nous sommes libres et responsables mais Dieu n'est pas tout-puissant. Toutes les subtilités d'écoles n'ont rien ajouté ni soustrait au tranchant de ce paradoxe.

Albert Camus

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Doug Coupland

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

George Santayana

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Dag Hammarskjold

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

Kristen Stewart

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event,

George Orwell

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Ellie Katz

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

George Eliot, Adam Bede

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

Stevie Smith

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Lewis Thomas

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Kristin Bauer van Straten