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Selected Quotations |
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"...-thought; this alone is inseparable from me. I am, I exist-that is certain. But for how long? For as long as I am thinking. For it could be that were I totally to cease from thinking, I should totally cease to exist." - Descartes |
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so stupid I could hardly stand to have him around. At twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in the past seven years." - Mark Twain |
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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education." - JFK |
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"They took away what should have been my eyes
(But I remembered Milton's Paradise).
They took away what should have been my ears,
(Beethoven came and wiped away my tears).
They took away what should have been my tongue,
(But I had talked with God when I was young).
He would not let them take away my soul -
Possessing that, I still possess the whole." - Helen Keller |
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"To the query, 'What is a friend?' his reply was 'A single soul dwelling in two bodies.' " - Aristotle |
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"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men." - Matthew Arnold |
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"Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others' death and dying the others' life." - Heraclitus (from "The Cosmic Fragments") |
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"God gives us our relatives,-thank God we can choose our friends." - Ethel Watts Mumford |
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"In Germany, the Nazis came for the Communists,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then, they came for the Jews,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then, they came for the trade unionists,
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then, they came for the Catholics,
And I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
When they came for me,
There was no one left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemoeller |
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." - Martin Luther King Jr. |
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"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give." - Bertrand Russell |
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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"When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon or that Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people." - Thomas Szasz |
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"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die." - Bob Dylan |
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"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation." -Friedrich Nietzsche |
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"This above all: to thine own self be true." - Shakespeare |
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"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
- Charles Dickens |
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