Mentat Mantra Quotes & Sayings

How to define a name, may not only be an inquiry of considerable difficulty and intricacy, but may involve considerations going deep into the nature of the things which are denoted by the name. Such, for instance, are the inquiries which form the subjects of the most important of Plato's Dialogues; as, "What is rhetoric?" the topic of the Gorgias, or, "What is justice?" that of the Republic. Such, also, is the question scornfully asked by Pilate, "What is truth?" and the fundamental question with speculative moralists in all ages, "What is virtue? — John Stuart Mill

Olay BB Cream is a lifesaver, and I wear it every day while I train and compete. Twenty-four-hour hydration and sheer color helps me look flawless even when faced with that unforgiving Jumbotron! — Lindsey Vonn

As the six, in file, passed into the poorhouse proper they clicked off glances of disdain with industrial precision. — John Updike

No matter how bad things looked, Gramps had always seemed a giant to me. He wasn't made up of any monstrous parts. — Sally Gardner

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed. — E.A. Bucchianeri

But that's why you're upset now. Fiction is not life.'
'You don't believe that.'
'I think I do.'
'You know as well as I do that the line can't be drawn, that we're infected at every moment by fictions of all kinds, that it's inescapable.'
'Don't be a sophist,' he said. 'There is a world and it's palpable.'
'I don't mean that,' I said. 'I mean that it's hard really to see it, that it's all hazy with out dreams and fantasies. — Siri Hustvedt

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers. — Isabelle Huppert

What shall we do with ... the Jews? ... I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings ... are to be taken from them. — Martin Luther

Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb. — Alex Scarrow

I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror. — Seanan McGuire

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. — Alexander Pope