Sperlonga Quotes & Sayings

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. — Juvenal

Whoever wishes to see the world truly, to rise in thought above the tyranny of practical desires, must learn to overcome the difference of attitude towards past and future, and to survey the whole stream of time in one comprehensive vision. — Bertrand Russell

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. — Oliver Sacks

But like the crusaders, who in the name of piety had carried out that dreadful massacre in Jerusalem, there were many citizens who failed to hear in those penitential sermons a call to mend their ways, and instead learnt to hate all those who didn't share their faith. — E.H. Gombrich

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi. — Ella Leya

Although I was first drawn to math and science by the certainty they promised, today I find the unanswered questions and the unexpected connections at least as attractive. — Lisa Randall