When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Karl Marx

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.

Leo Tolstoy

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Otto Weininger

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

John Burroughs

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy it the other, that you can boast about it.

Bertrand Russell

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Samuel Johnson

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Max Frisch

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Oliver Goldsmith

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Henri Poincare

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana