Hjelmslev Quotes & Sayings

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. — Christopher Lasch

I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides. — William Golding

That destruction o'er you hovers; Lustful Man and crafty Devil Will combine to work your evil; And from earth by sorrows driven, Soon your Soul must speed to heaven. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

The future of human liberty ... means the future of civilization. — Henry Hazlitt

In their doubt of miracles there was a faith in a fixed and godless fate; a deep and sincere faith in the incurable routine of the cosmos. — G.K. Chesterton

Dialogue, discussion, and participatory decision making are all part of building self-discipline. — Jim Highsmith

Some people actually do not like animals - hard for me to understand, but true. — Jane Goodall

The earth shook under their tread as their strong feet sank into the wet turf. A tiny haze and a sweet smell went up where they had crushed the grass and scattered the dew. Some were naked, some robed. But the naked ones did not seem less adorned, and the robes did not disguise in those who wore them the massive grandeur of muscle and the radiant smoothness of flesh. Some were geared but no no one in that company struck me as being of any particular age. One gets glimpses, even in our country, of that which is ageless
heavy thought in the face of an infant, and frolic childhood in that of a very old man. Here it was all like that. — C.S. Lewis

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman. — Miguel De Unamuno