Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.
~ Che Guevara
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Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.
~ Che Guevara
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
~ Confucius
In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of imagination and fantasy.
~ John Lanchester
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All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.
~ Albert Camus
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Philosophical entities exist only insofar as they have been philosophically posited. Outside their philosophical framework, the empirical data that a philosophy organizes lose every possible unity and cohesion.
~ Umberto Eco
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
~ Ernest Hemingway
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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