Mente Brillante Quotes & Sayings

Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person. — Sara Blakely

A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts. — Gautama Buddha

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. — Anya Seton

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked. — Tori Amos

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. — Benito Mussolini

Philosophy deals in the abstract and the universal, but not in the particular. History deals only in the particular, not with general principles. Poetry deals with both, illustrating universal principles with particular examples or embodiments of those principles:
Now doth the peerless poet perform both: for whatsoever the philosopher saith should be done, he giveth a perfect picture of it in someone by whom he presupposeth it was done; so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example.
Another advantage poetry has over philosophy is greater clarity:
the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught. But the poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs, the poet is indeed the right popular philosopher.
Essentially, poetry shows history more brilliantly than history, and explains philosophy more cogently than philosophy. — Philip Sidney

That's what got her, of course. That everyone thought it so unbelievable that she could possibly attract a man like him. It shouldn't upset her because it was true. She couldn't. Not in this world, in this lifetime. Yet she didn't appreciated everyone else acting as if they were the most improbable twosome since Quasimodo hit on Esmeralda. — Jo Leigh

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority. — Tessa Jowell