Hannah Arendt on Dreams & Dreaming

January 10th, 2007

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

- Hannah Arendt

Woodrow Wilson on Intelligence

January 10th, 2007

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

- Woodrow Wilson

Juan Antonio Samaranch on History

January 9th, 2007

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

- Juan Antonio Samaranch

W. C. Fields on Humor

January 9th, 2007

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

- W. C. Fields

E. F. Schumacher on Technology

January 8th, 2007

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

- E. F. Schumacher

Alexander Calder on Art

January 8th, 2007

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

- Alexander Calder

Blaise Pascal on Nature

January 7th, 2007

There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other.

- Blaise Pascal

Mike Singletary on Sports

January 7th, 2007

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

- Mike Singletary

Arthur Schopenhauer on Death

January 6th, 2007

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Fred Allen on Humor

January 6th, 2007

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

- Fred Allen