Debendranath Tagore Quotes & Sayings

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. — Joe Abercrombie

She would go away deep into the green and white and yellow countryside, and smell the may and lie in the grass and feel the world turning on its axis, and remember that it was a very large world, and that College griefs were mild and bitter but soon over and that in the Scale of Things they were undeniably Very Small Beer. — Josephine Tey

I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies. — Robin Hobb

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy. — Kenny Smith

It's baffling how some people whose ancestors carved up the world with knives are now worried about defending their piece from the 'outsiders. — Jonathan R. Miller

A good lenten answer! I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colours. — William Shakespeare