If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
~ Franz Kafka
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions.
~ Umberto Eco
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I have done my best, and I hope I have sown some seeds which may bring forth good fruit.
~ George C. Marshall
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Anyone who has once looked into the glassy eyes of a dying warrior on the battle-field would think twice before beginning a war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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We only become beasts — we become worse than beasts — when we torment others.
~ Iain Banks
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By 11th grade, the high-IQ students and their parents have spent so many years immersed in the college-admissions game that they, like 18th-century aristocrats evaluating which family has the most noble line, are able to make all sorts of fine distinctions about which universities have the most prestige: Princeton is better than Cornell; Williams is better than Colby.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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