In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Marquis de Sade

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Friedrich von Schiller

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

J. C. Watts

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

John Green

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

Vincent Van Gogh

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson, A Return to

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Sinclair Lewis

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Emile M. Cioran

Men spend their time chasing a ball or a hare; it is the very sport of kings.

Blaise Pascal

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

Clarice Lispector

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau