Quotations

"People just ain't no good." - Nick Cave

"All mankind are intrinsical rascals, and I only wish I were a dog so that I could bite them." - Lord Byron

"Mankind is fallen." - Glass Hammer, Lex Rex

"A man's got to know his limitations." - Dirty Harry

"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men." - Blue Oyster Cult

"The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others" - Ben Franklin

"The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded. And the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." - Edmund Burke

"We are burdened with an over-realization of ourselves. Not that we can perceive too clearly the rights and wrongs of every human being but that we feel too deeply our own, to find in the end that what has meaning for each one alone... has no real meaning at all." -Edith Hamilton

"In moderation placing all my glory
While Tories call me Whig and Whigs a Tory." - Alexander Pope

"Nothing in excess." - The Oracle at Delphi

"In everything else, such as eating, drinking, and sleeping, moderation is the rule... but in love take no measure. Indeed; I wish that you had never to cease in this work of love." - The Cloud of Unknowing

"Don't close the shades until the twilight fades." - Screaming Trees

"I am not against progress; I just think we've taken in a lot of crud along with the good, and I'm not sure if they're separable." - Robert Paul Smith

"We grownups are always around pumping our kids full of what we laughingly call facts. They don't want science. They want magic." - Robert Paul Smith

"My world, as a kid, was full of things that grownups didn't care about. My fear now is that all of us grownups have become so childish that we don't leave the kids much room to move around in, that we foolishly believe that we understand them so well because we share things with them. Maybe my kids have got a whole world of their own, with different objects, and I am not admitted to their councils. I devoutly hope so." - Robert Paul Smith

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." -Dr. Seuss

"Life is about women, gigs, and being creative." - Harvey Pekar

"One of the two, according to your choice,
Woman or wine you'll have to undergo.
Both maladies are taxes on our joys,
But which to choose I really hardly know.
And if I had to give a casting voice,
For both sides I could many reasons show,
And decide, without great wrong to either,
It were much better to have both than neither.
-Lord Byron

"One of the great things in life is being true within the conventions." - Robert Frost

"And if I go insane, please don't put your wires in my brain." - Pink Floyd

"Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Schopenhauer

"A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own." - Albert Schweitzer

"There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties... the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind." - Charles Darwin

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that, beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the devil in human form." - William Ralph Inge

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Gandhi

"Animals have much to teach us about love. The closer we get to animals, the more joy they give us." - Dr David Niven

"In all natural things there is something wonderful." - Aristotle (de partibus animalium)

"Going to the woods is going home." - John Muir

"Among the many subjects that interested me, I dwelt especially upon antiquity... In order to forget my own time, I have constantly striven to place myself in spirit in other ages, and consequently I delighted in history." - Petrarch

"The holy Bible and the phenomena of nature proceed alike from the divine Word." - Galileo

"And I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: 'Tell me of my God, since you are not He.' And they cried out in a great voice: 'He made us.' My question was my gazing upon them, and their answer was their beauty." - St. Augustine

"You could not enter a Gothic church without feeling a kind of awe... Everything in a Gothic church reminds you of the labyrinth of a wood... The two lofty towers erected at the entrance produce the most picturesque effect on the azure of heaven... The birds themselves seem to take them for the trees of the forests; they hover over their summits and perch upon their pinnacles. Past ages raise their venerable voices from the bosom of the stones, and are heard in every corner of the vast cathedral." - Chateaubriand

"Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness." - G.K. Chesterton

"The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason." - G.K. Chesterton

"If the cosmos of the materialist is the real cosmos, it is not much of a cosmos. The thing has shrunk... The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle... Mysticism keeps men sane. As long as you have mystery, you have health." - G.K. Chesterton

"The joy of man, either in elfland or on earth... the happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do." - G.K. Chesterton

"Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her." - G.K. Chesterton

"If it comes to human testimony, there is a choking cataract of human testimony in favor of the supernatural." - G.K. Chesterton




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