Overripe Pears Quotes & Sayings

The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with energy and ethical significance. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. — Baron De Montesquieu

Somewhere there was a book of love, with all the symptoms written down in red ink: Dizziness and Desire. A tendency to stare at the night sky, searching for a message that might be found up above. A lurching in the pit of the stomach, as if something much too sweet had been eaten. The ability to hear the quietest sounds--snails munching the lettuce leaves, moths drinking nectar from the overripe pears on the tree by the fence, a rabbit trembling in ivy-just in case he might be there, which was what mattered all along. Real hunger, just to see him, as if this would ever be enough. — Alice Hoffman

As Thomas Hobbes said, If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are. — Mortimer J. Adler

All is grace only because all can transfigure. — Ann Voskamp

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that. — Yoshihiko Noda