The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experiment conducted by qualified experts, or the convictions of simple folks uncorrupted by civilisation---this view, in one form or another, is central to western thought, which stems from Plato and his disciples.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.

Thomas Kempis

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Hilaire Belloc

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

Ian Jackson

No one man is superior to the game.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

Julius Caesar

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptised backwards into ignorance and simplicity.

J.K. Rowling

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

Dale Carnegie

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

Don DeLillo

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Aristophanes

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Simone Weil