George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8 Quote #8304 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself...
Paul Wiener Quote #32948 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from...
Ursula K. LeGuin Quote #5888 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the...
Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29,1955 Quote #10816 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if...
Jonathan Swift Quote #20699 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of...
Richard Jordan Quote #29021 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The law demands good works and uses its terror–rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered...
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles Quote #11533 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)
Rene Descartes Quote #7067 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Wernher von Braun Quote #2464 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your...
John Ruskin Quote #31369 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but...