I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening – the time they call, for some accountable reason, ‘between dog and wolf’.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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Category Archives: 1059 – Quote Unquote
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Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.
~ Albert Camus
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
~ Mark Twain
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins.
~ György Lukács
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The concept of original sin gives us a penetrating insight into human destiny.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
~ Toni Morrison
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