The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
- Chesterton, Gilbert K.
- Chesterton, Gilbert K.
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
- Brendan Behan
- Brendan Behan
The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."
- Julian the Apostate
- Julian the Apostate
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
- Byron, Lord
- Byron, Lord
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
- Buddha
- Buddha
Faith and prayer are simple things, . . . but when we begin to want faith, and to assist prayer by our own inventions and to explain away God's providence, then faith and prayer become intricate and uncertain. We cannot serve God and mammon. We must either utterly depend on God (and therefore on our own reason enlightened by His spirit after prayer), or we must utterly depend on the empirical maxims of the world. Choose!
- MS. Letter.
- MS. Letter.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Vincent Van Gogh
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Waugh, Evelyn
Hostage is a crucifying aloneness. It is a silent, screaming slide into the bowels of ultimate despair. Hostage is a man hanging by his fingernails over the edge of chaos, feeling his fingers slowly straightening. Hostage is the humiliating stripping away of every sense and fiber of body and mind and spirit that make us what we are. Hostage is a mutant creation filled with fear, self-loathing, guilt and death-wishing. But he is a man, a rare, unique and beautiful creation of which these things are no part.
- Keenan, Brian
- Keenan, Brian
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
- Lippmann, Walter
- Lippmann, Walter
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way.
- Graves, Earl G.
- Graves, Earl G.
You don't resign from these jobs, you escape from them.
- Steel, Dawn
- Steel, Dawn
To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.
- King Stanislas I of Poland
- King Stanislas I of Poland
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
- Cyril Connolly
- Cyril Connolly
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lincoln, Abraham
Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
- Arnold, Sir Edwin
- Arnold, Sir Edwin
Eureka! I've got it.
- Archimedes
- Archimedes
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
- Joubert, Joseph
- Joubert, Joseph

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