Flaschner Institute Quotes & Sayings

Plate glass ... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can see all that is happening outside. That is the equivalent of writing that is plain and unadorned. Ideally, in reading such writing, you are not even aware that you are reading. Ideas and events seem merely to flow from the mind of the writer into that of the reader without any barrier between. I hope that is what is happening when you read this book — Isaac Asimov

The true logic of this world is in the calculus of probabilities. — James Clerk Maxwell

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity. — Alec Guinness

In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets. — Marilynne Robinson

Don't let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past. — Ronald Reagan

I've always been attracted to temporary families. — Gus Van Sant

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new. — Donald Miller

In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he had a wife and children. — Leo Tolstoy