Merlefest Quotes & Sayings

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon. — Timothy Keller

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? — Franz Schubert

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.' — Doc Watson

Fears have been raised that in their enthusiasm scientists might inadvertently create a black hole or even something called "strange quarks," which could, theoretically, interact with other subatomic particles and propagate uncontrollably. If you are reading this, that hasn't happened. Finding — Bill Bryson

The presence of the problem of man's free will, though unexpressed, is felt at every step of history. All seriously thinking historians have involuntarily encountered this question. All the contradictions and obscurities of history and the false path historical science has followed are due solely to the lack of a solution of that question. If the will of every man were free, that is, if each man could act as he pleased, all history would be a series of disconnected incidents. — Leo Tolstoy