Hudson Leick Quotes & Sayings

Every noble work is at first impossible. — Thomas Carlyle

Spencer Brown puts it) once they are discovered, are seen to be extremely simple and obvious, and make everybody, including their discoverer, appear foolish for not having discovered them before. It is all too often forgotten that the ancient symbol for the prenascence (i.e., prior to emergence state) of the world is a fool, and that foolishness, being a divine state, is not a condition to be either proud or ashamed of. — Alan W. Watts

What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs. — John Yoo

With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which has always done its work for those on earth, will roll away the stone from the tomb where is buried a race, and my people will come forth to their glory and the amazement of the world. — William Tecumseh Vernon

As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing. — Jack Kerouac

Sometimes, I miss you with an intensity not even your presence can fulfill — Srividya Srinivasan

Rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination — W.B.Yeats

What was happening here? He decided that children were what was happening here; that children served as a symbolic blemish, like a birthmark or obesity, which gave him a chance where previously there would have been none. Maybe children democratized beautiful single women. — Nick Hornby

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't. And if that's what God's like, I wouldn't worry about it. — Haruki Murakami