Quote #19887
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
Quote #22861
Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
Quote #29844
Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don’t know...
Quote #118
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Quote #34551
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings,...
Quote #26464
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any...
Quote #15677
There are two classes of poets – the poets by education and practice, these...
Quote #26957
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to...
Quote #15732
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.
Quote #12363
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.