Arbenz El Quotes & Sayings

What is the role of intellectuals in Europe? There's this debate in which all speakers do not appear to me to even be intellectuals. Why is Martin Sommers an intellectual? It is a political journalist who writes mediocre pieces. If that is sufficient to call yourself a 'European intellectual then the question of the debate has already become rhetorical. — Martijn Benders

Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits. — Patton Oswalt

Thank you, I am well, certainly, and I have found more happiness in the last months than I ever hoped I might. — Tracy Rees

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time. — Sean Covey

Did you know that half of all people are below average? — Garrison Keillor

The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science — George Santayana

Ronan could feel the size of the mountain under his feet. The oldness of it. Far below there was a heartbeat that wrapped around the world, slower and stronger and more inexorable than Ronan's own — Maggie Stiefvater