Desautels Kenzie Quotes & Sayings

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. — Al Stewart

Semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense — Alfred Tarski

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined. — John C. Wright

A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture. — Marcel Proust

One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are ordered by forces that are beyond the ability of our rational mind to understand or control. — Thom Hartmann

Isn't it time that, loving, we freed ourselves
from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:
as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be,
in its flight, something more than itself? — Rainer Maria Rilke

I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women. — Jenny Slate

Now is the time ... for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth. — John F. Kennedy

Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau