"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." ~ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself." ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829)
"What smites us with unquenchable amazement is not that which we grasp and are able to convey but that which lies within our reach but beyond our grasp; not the quantitative aspect of nature but something qualitative; not what is beyond our range of time and space but the true meaning, source and end of being, in other words, the ineffable." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." ~ Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Too much light often blinds gentlemen of this sort. They cannot see the forest for the trees." ~ Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813)
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." ~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." ~ Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." ~ Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
"If God listened to every shepherd's curse, our sheep would all be dead." ~ Old Russian Proverb
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"We are none of us infallible; not even the youngest of us." ~ William Hepworth Thompson (1810-1886)
"Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth." ~ Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Une maison est une machine-à-habiter." [A house is a machine for living in.] Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten." ~ Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990)
"Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches." ~ Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." ~ Bob Dylan (b. 1941)
"What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after." ~ Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather, and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living." ~ Max Lerner (1902-1992)
"They suffer least who suffer what they choose". ~ David Ackels (1937-1999)
"Via ovicipitum dura est." [The way of the egghead is hard.] ~ Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900-1965)
"All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the children of the Earth." ~ Seattle (1786-1866)
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in." ~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Not all those that wander are lost." ~ J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." ~ James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically." ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God, as the Catholics and Protestants do. We do not want that. We may quarrel with men about things on earth, but we never quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that." ~ Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world." ~ John le Carré (1931-2020)
"The fact that doctors themselves die of the same diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed." ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
~ Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953)
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is the fire that consumes me, but I am the fire." ~ Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
"A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain;
And drinking largely sobers us again."
~ Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
"The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.” ~ Georgia Harkness (1891- 1974)
"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act." ~ Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
"The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour." Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"It ain't over till it's over." ~ Yogi Berra (1925-2015)
