Etag Double Quotes & Sayings

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink! — Nikos Kazantzakis

If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist outside the Church whether it exists inside or not. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered. — C.S. Lewis

Education forms the common mind. — Alexander Pope

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it. — Will Durst

No words - Buddha's, mine, or anyone else's - can see for you. — Steve Hagen

As you grow up, and you'll find this, you keep getting involved with larger and larger illusions that take longer and longer to fall away. The great hope is eventually to find a delusion that will outlast your life. — Benjamin Kunkel

My God, my higher power, it's mine and mine alone. I create my connection, and I decide what my connection is going to be. — Will Smith

If you don't know your passion, it confuses your mind, not your heart. — Jeff VanderMeer

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love. — Danny Boyle

She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with the fragrance of her virtues. — Honore De Balzac

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. — Bergen Evans

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I also came across the word neoteny, which means "remaining young." It's something which we as humans have developed into a survival trait. Other animals, when they are young, have a curiosity about the world, a flexibility of response, and an ability to play which they lose as they grow up. As a species we have retained it. As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next. It is a trait that will either save us or kill us, but it is what makes us human beings. I would rather be in the company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel - other worlds are better than fluff. — Anonymous

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it? — Criss Angel

Each and everyone of us moves towards faiths we cannot possibly know. Each of us struggles against the pain of the world even as we are doomed to join it. — Charles Bock