The strong man is strongest when alone.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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The strong man is strongest when alone.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.
~ Mark Lilla
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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Edgar Allan Poe is popularly known for writing early-American horror stories. But for me, he is a social scientist who used fiction instead of theory and statistics to make his arguments about human behavior.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
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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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Resitance is by nature reactive; it is not forward-looking.
~ Mark Lilla
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
~ Anton Chekhov
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To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Anton Chekhov
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France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that’s why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it’s like shouting in a forest. There’s no echo.
~ Marc Chagall
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You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.
~ Milan Kundera