I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
~ Antonio Gramsci
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Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
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The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists.
~ Dean Acheson
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
~ Anton Chekhov
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust
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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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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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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
~ Marcel Proust
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