Complete Artscroll Quotes & Sayings

Curiosity evokes 'concern'; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular what surrounds us; a certain relentlessness to break up our familiarities and to regard otherwise the same things; a fervor to grasp what is happening and what passes; a casualness in regard to the traditional hierarchies of the important and the essential. I dream of a new age of curiosity. We have the technical means for it; the desire is there; the things to be known are infinite; the people who can employ themselves at this task exist. Why do we suffer? From too little: from the channels that are too narrow, skimpy, quasi-monopolistic, insufficient. There is no point in adopting a protectionist attitude, to prevent 'bad' information from invading and suffocating the 'good.' Rather, we must multiply the paths and the possibility of comings and goings. — Michel Foucault

I was completely and irrevocably in lust; which tends to make a person impassive to others' pain. Love makes us compassionate. Lust makes us deaf to all but the lover. — Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

Two abysses, gentlemen of the jury, remember that Karamazov can contemplate two abysses, and both at the same time. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. — Thucydides

If I didn't care about anyone, then no one could hurt me. — Jeaniene Frost

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply. — Xenocrates

Life is art and art is life. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. — Sol LeWitt

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value. — Esther Rolle