Favorite Quotes

"Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence." - Lavater

 

"The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere." - McKenna

 

"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear." - Montgomery

 

"Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed." - Shenstone

 

"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern." - Dilthey

 

"So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique." - Royce

 

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." - Magritte

 

"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them." - Gide

 

"Poetry is a sort of homecoming." - Celan

 

"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare." - Spinoza

 

"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it." - Mayhew

 

"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor." - Cowper

 

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." - Beard

 

"The true method of knowledge is experiment." - Blake

 

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Alcott

 

"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle." - Swift

 

"If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was." - Elk

 

"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science." - Seurat

 

"Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality." - Conrad

 

"The only journey is the one within." - Rilke