Helen Hoover Santmyer Famous Quotes
"Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it It is all held in our minds."
Helen Hoover Santmyer Quotations
"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
Henri Poincare
"How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old"
Lois McMaster Bujold
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
Lawrence Sterne
"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
Thomas Jefferson
Deus ex machina A god from the machine
Menander
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
Eva Pern
"To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce."
Peter de Gaston Levis
"One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
Aldous Huxley
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
John Stuart Mill
"The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it."
Paul Klee