Timothy Leary on Society
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
- Timothy Leary
Archive for June, 2008
George Jean Nathan on Patriotism
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan
Henry Ward Beecher on Forgivness
Friday, June 27th, 2008I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
George Moore on Love
Friday, June 27th, 2008The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
- George Moore
Ambrose Bierce on Success
Friday, June 27th, 2008Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce
Robertson Davies on Politics
Friday, June 27th, 2008Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.
- Robertson Davies
George Bernard Shaw on Nature
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- George Bernard Shaw
Evita Peron on History
Thursday, June 26th, 2008I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.
- Evita Peron
Adam Smith on Science
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
- Adam Smith
Novalis on Poetry
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
- Novalis
