Author Quotes

Now as all the sciences are connected with each other, Philosophy is never completed. In a complete system of all the sciences will philosophy for the first time be made manifest.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Agatha Christie

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Johannes V. Jensen

Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

William Ralph Inge

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

G. K. Chesterton

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

There are times when Science does not satisfy.

Rudyard Kipling

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

François Mauriac

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

Henry David Thoreau

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

György Konrád

I tasted - careless - then -
I did not know the Wine
Came once a World - Did you?
Oh, had you told me so -
This Thirst would blister - easier - now

Emily Dickinson

Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.

George Bernard Shaw

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.

William Faulkner

Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.