Sonneteer Crossword Quotes & Sayings

If you believe in nothing, if life can have no real objective meaning and all is socially constructed; then pleasure is absolutely necessary as an analgesic, and distraction is the primary philosophical argument. The politically correct are nihilists, that is reality-deniers, and when there is no reality then the only positive is pleasure. — Bruce G. Charlton

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him. — Thomas Hobbes

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. — Grace Jones

He gave such a vulnerable impression. He resembled the leaf that a little boy strikes down from its branch with a stick, because its singularity makes it conspicuous. — Robert Walser

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads. — Martin Luther