Chtree Quotes & Sayings

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact — Charles Taylor

We are artists, because God is. — Peter Kreeft

Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us. — Mario Puzo

It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. — Jonathan Swift

Even when the [schizophrenic] patient is striving to tell us, in as clear and straightforward a way as he knows how, the nature of his anxieties and his experiences, structured as they are in a radically different way from ours, the speech content is necessarily difficult to follow. Moreover, the formal elements of speech are in themselves ordered in unusual ways, and these formal peculiarities seem, at least to some extent, to be the reflection in language of the alternative ordering of his experience, with splits in it where we take coherence for granted, and the running together (confusion) of elements that we keep apart. — R.D. Laing

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part. — Brian Wilson