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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi /





A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard /





The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
Bernard de Mandeville /





To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton /





But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts /





Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi /





The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Plato /





Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius Cicero /





Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle /





Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway /





First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw /





Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Epictetus /





No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato /





Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch Spinoza /





Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Arthur Schopenhauer /





I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mahatma Gandhi /





Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes /





Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus /





Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Niccolo Machiavelli /





The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Hannah Arendt /





Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac /





Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon /





The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus / 





I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
Noam Chomsky /





He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /





Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle /





Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon /





Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde /





Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx /





Misery is the company of lawsuits.
François Rabelais /






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