O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again, and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed but said 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet Mahomet will go to the hill'.
Francis Bacon
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
J. K. Rowling
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Gustave Flaubert
Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache, do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
William Blake
The three great elements of modern civilization Gun powder Printing and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
Life is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthur
