Elasticsearch Documentation Quotes & Sayings

As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to other of the highest and best feelings to which mankind has risen." It seems to me that, regarding agrarian art, the farther it moves away from the natural world, especially when the main goal is money profits, the more difficult it becomes for it to reflect "the highest and best feelings" of humanity. The same is true of, of course, of agriculture itself. The farther it tries to remove itself from nature in search of money, the more it moves away from the highest and healthiest kinds of food. — Gene Logsdon

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. — Rumi

We can't let the past be forgotten. — George Takei

As the concert goers left the hall, the music of the end of the world still ringing in their ears, they filed out past children dressed in their Hitler Youth uniforms who had been assigned to helpfully hold out baskets filled with cyanide capsules for the crowd. — Andrei Cherny

Insist that the work be done in very truth and it will be done. The cross is rough, and it is deadly, but it is effective. — A.W. Tozer

A bartender walks into a church, a temple and a mosque. He has no idea how jokes work. — Various