Mithridaticum Quotes & Sayings

There was a Socratic style of life (which the Cynics were to imitate), and the Socratic dialogue was an exercise which brought Socrates' interlocutor to put himself in question, to take care of himself, and to make his soul as beautiful and wise as possible. — Pierre Hadot

Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. — Lewis Mumford

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies. — Nicolas Cage

If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up. — Missy Mazzoli

I'm doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I'm drowning more and more each day. — Courtney Cole

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s. — Donovan Bailey

They were happy not in spite of their sadness but thanks to it. — Milan Kundera

Something gurgled in his throat. It took a moment before he realized it was a scream bottled in his innards, a blast of misery trying to force its way out. — Tad Williams

195. "God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me a right faith, a sure hope, a perfect charity, sense and knowledge, so that I may carry out your holy command. — Francis Of Assisi

It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not. — Mary Beard

Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? — Clarice Lispector

In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame. — Anthony Powell