Arciniegas Colombia Quotes & Sayings

To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so conceive of thought as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate ... If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors [Heidegger] adopted the second alternative. — Leo Strauss

I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be carried out and done by people with ideas, people with concepts, people who feel in their bones that they want to go ahead and develop this, that, or the other concept which occurs to them. — Mark Oliphant

And now, she was walking down the hall with her books clutched to her chest, looking down at the floor while guys called, Don't hide that light under a bushel! — E. Lockhart

Every life has one true love snapshot. — Mitch Albom

All the nations that ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand. The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human material is atomized and recycled. But if we know where to look, there is always a remnant, a remainder, an irreducible residue. — Norman Davies

Ah, Valentine's Day. This Author personally detests the holiday. A girl must take the measure of her worth by the number of cards and bouquets she receives, and a young man is forced to spew poetry as if anyone actually spoke in rhyme. It's a wonder the holiday hasn't been — Julia Quinn

She'll never love you better than she loves her own children. — Mark Lawrence

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness. — David Hume

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer. — Tommy Bolt