One of the best things in life is discovering that love is unconditional and stronger than time or space and there is no relativity on the theory of love.
The Crazy Duke
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One of the best things in life is discovering that love is unconditional and stronger than time or space and there is no relativity on the theory of love.
The Crazy Duke
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra Pound
“Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.”
Epictetus
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
Pope John XXIII
I invented nothing but I am rediscovering all ...
“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)
“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
Victor Hugo