It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Mathematics is too arduous and uninviting a field to appeal to those to whom it does not give great rewards.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains.
~ Jeremy Bentham
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While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.
~ Iain Banks
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Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
~ Albert Camus
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
~ William S. Burroughs
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Mere adequacy is never adequate.
~ John Lanchester
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Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.
~ Anton Chekhov
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
~ Franz Kafka
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