Havelkova Dorty Quotes & Sayings

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know. — Ann Druyan

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends. — Aesop

Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived a few centuries ago in a state worse than ignorance. Some sort of learned jargon much more despicable than ignorance had usurped the name of knowledge and set up an almost invincible obstacle in the way of its return. A revolution was necessary to bring men back to common sense, and it finally came from a quarter where one would least expect it. It was the stupid Muslim, the eternal blight on learning, who brought about its rebirth among us. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Smile like a flower; appreciate to empower. — Debasish Mridha

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose. — Tao Lin

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man. — Leo Tolstoy

Literature, in fact, had been concerned with virtues and vices of a perfectly healthy sort, the regular functioning of brains of a normal conformation, the practical reality of current ideas, with never a thought for morbid depravities and other-worldly aspirations; in short, the discoveries of these anaylists of human nature stopped short at the speculations good or bad, classified by the church; their efforts amounted to no more than the humdrum researches of a botanist who watches closely the expected development of ordinary flora planted in common or garden soil. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

A person's heart should be what she was judged by, rather than whose blood ran in her veins. — Melanie Dickerson

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
[The Minotaur] — Albert Camus

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely. — Jack Germond