"What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts."
~Friedrich von Logau
"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth."
~Thomas Mann
"Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies."
~Maya Angelou
"Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?"
~Aphra Behn
"Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life."
~Peter Altenberg
"Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
~Henry Miller
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
~Will Durant
"I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why."
~Bernard Mannes Baruch
"The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all."
~Pablo Casals
"Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom."
~Jean-Paul Sartre
"It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting."
~Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Bibescu
"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen."
~Leonardo da Vinci
"Aim at being loved without being admired."
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own."
~Salvatore Quasimodo
 Aften Stjerne · Tue May 27, 2008 @ 04:24pm · 0 Comments |
