Smaken Betekenis Quotes & Sayings

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He knew he would think better clearer thoughts after bathing in the sea. His mother had believed in the good effects of bathing, but she had died so young. — Saul Bellow

What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we've read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive. — Gabriel Zaid

Rejoice then, believer, in this: thou art accepted "in the beloved." Thou lookest within, and thou sayest, "There is nothing acceptable here!" But look at Christ, and see if there is not everything acceptable there. Thy sins trouble thee; but God has cast thy sins behind His back, and thou art accepted in the Righteous — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context. — Karl Mannheim

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations. — Horace Rowan Gaither

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. — Rand Paul

You only have to look back five years to see a different world, and, by extension, tangible proof that culture is ours to shape, if we try. Obviously — Lindy West

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given ... but we're cool nerds. — Jonathan Krohn