Narukvice Srebro Quotes & Sayings

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It looked like a colour, but also ... like a bruise or a secretion, like an oozing-and something else, an odour, for example, it melted into the odour of wet earth, warm, moist wood, into a black odour that spread like varnish over this sensitive wood, in a flavour of chewed, sweet fibre. I did not simply see this black: sight is an abstract invention, a simplified idea, one of man's ideas. That black, amorphous, weakly presence, far surpassed sight, smell and taste. But this richness was lost in confusion and finally was no more because it was too much. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them. — Sam Huntington

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany. — James Mark Baldwin

If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities. — Amanda Palmer

When we dream, we feel we are experiencing reality. What separates our waking feelings from our dream feelings?"
"When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream," writes Descartes. And he goes on: "How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream? — Jostein Gaarder

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk. — Aristotle.

The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. — John Milton

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another. — Edith Wharton