The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passersby to come and love us. —Robert Louis Stevenson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see. . . . So the fantasy corners of America, . . . you've pieced them together from scenes in movies and music and lines from books. And you live in your dream America that you've custom-made from art and schmaltz and emotions just as much as you live in your real one. —Andy Warhol More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely . . . on the strength of their own thought. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
History assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. —Will and Ariel Durant More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Food. Water. Shelter. Air. Sleep. Societal inflation has expanded need into greed. Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cellphone, cable tv, and French-manicured fingernails. . . . We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining. —Charlie Diekatze More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. . . . Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in. —Bill Hicks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With the people, for the people, by the people — I crack up when I hear it. I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, because that's what really happens. —Fannie Lou Hamer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Science . . . is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. —Carl Jung More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. . . . Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill. . . . At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer. —John R. Searle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teased the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition. "Can it be that you, of all people, believe it will bring you luck?" "Of course not," replied Bohr, "but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe or not. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. —Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every time we drop our bombs in North Vietnam, President Johnson talks eloquently about peace. . . . But one day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. . . . In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. —President Ronald Reagan, joking before a radio broadcast, unaware that the microphone was on More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat. . . . There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right. —Freya Stark More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we grow old, there can only be one regret — not to have given enough of ourselves. —Eleonora Duse More about this quote Tags: enough regret Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email