Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

Kuo His

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Soren Kierkegaard

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.

Jean Francois Lyotard

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

Albert Guerard

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

David Rockefeller

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

William S. Burroughs

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Deepak Chopra

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Ibrahim Babangida

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

W. Somerset Maugham

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

Le Corbusier

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou