Kinana Quotes & Sayings

The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity ... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne. — Brian Swimme

Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse — Ben Harper

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. — John Milton

All truth is an achievement. If you would have truth at its value, go with it. — Thornton T. Munger

Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream. — David Gemmell

17. He thought that thus fear would act as a curb on lust, and that lust being curbed would not run riot in luxury, and that luxury being prevented avarice would be at an end; and that these vices being banished, virtue would flourish and increase the great profit of the state; and liberty, the fit companion of virtue, would abide unfettered. — Augustine Of Hippo

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. — Paul Samuelson

The greatest regret I have in this life ... is that that creature came out of my body. — Natsuki Takaya

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good. — James Gleick