Eisleben Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. ... 1 Nothing is required for this enlightenment ... except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters. - IMMANUEL KANT, What Is Enlightenment? — Jon Meacham

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future
a terrible festival of dead leaves. — Anna Akhmatova

Living well is the best revenge. — George Herbert

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun. — Heather Matarazzo

Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line. — Pope Shenouda III

Ravishment of this slender body in all ways possible before draining it of the life substance? Aren't you a pleasure hoarder, my dear? — Ciaran O. Dwynvil

But it is a truism of life that no matter how much we are suffering, nobody else cares - generally speaking, nobody even notices. — Jeff Lindsay

And are you married, sir?" Mrs Winstanley asked Tom. "Oh no, madam!" said Tom.
"Yes," David reminded him. "You are, you know."
Tom made a motion with his hand to suggest that it was a situation susceptible to different interpretations.
The truth was that he had a Christian wife. At fifteen she had had a wicked little face, almond-shaped eyes and a most capricious nature. Tom had constantly compared her to a kitten. In her twenties she had been a swan; in her thirties a vixen; and then in rapid succession a bitch, a viper, a cockatrice and, finally, a pig. What animals he might have compared her to now no one knew. She was well past ninety now and for forty years or more she had been confined to a set of apartments in a distant part of the Castel des Tours saunz Nowmbre under strict instructions not to shew herself, while her husband waited impatiently for someone to come and tell him she was dead. — Susanna Clarke

And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear, And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here. — Philip Freneau

You love the word love but you don't really love and you don't want to love because love, which is really sacrifice, would prevent you from doing what you want to do. — Donna Lynn Hope

If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make, but while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause — Jim Rohn

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. — Angelina Jolie