Man's true nature being lost everything becomes his nature, as his true good being lost everything becomes his good.
Blaise Pascal
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Stendhal
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
E. O. Wilson
When you're young you look at television and think there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form a clear volume through successive eliminations you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso
The farther backward you can look the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
A statesman we are told should follow public opinion. Doubtless as a coachman follows his horses, having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
Augustus Hare
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
Tom Stoppard
