Quoad Ultra Quotes & Sayings

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist. — Kenneth Tynan

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself. — Margaret Atwood

Think of the cold Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov, or the monk who tries to eliminate all humor in The Name of the Rose, or the frowning Koran burners of Florida. Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody. — Richard Rohr

There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels. — Christian Morgenstern

Teachers ... preach "the superiority of the intelligence"; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical. — Julien Benda

I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to life for many ages. However, the basic task of natural science consisted of making this energy usable. This is the sole difference between my work and all preceding knowledge. — Wilhelm Reich

Life is too short to drink bad wine. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The fear of poetry is the fear. — Muriel Rukeyser