Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Only a country’s most vital interests justify its embarking on war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
~ Iain Banks
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
~ Audre Lorde
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Domesticated animals are said to serve three functions, sometimes called the 3 F’s: food, fiber and friends. Dogs have made the complete transition to friends. For most people, cattle remain solidly in the first two categories, but I have no doubt that they can be friends, too.
~ Gregory Berns via The New York Times
Dr. Gregory S. Berns is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at Emory University in Atlanta where he teaches psychology.
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Money is unimportant, but it is reassuring to have it.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas — and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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