"Feelings are what you experience when you try to access the immeasurable."
Steven Paglierani
"Doubt unmasks the lie and illuminates the dark path to truth."
Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
"The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-."
Emily Dickinson
"I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher."
Moses Mendelssohn
"As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to 'the difference personalities make'."
Walter Isaacson
"Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it."
Neil Strauss
"What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But go where you will, there is no land where the dead return across the river."
Mary Renault
"There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?"
Karen Essex
"Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat."
Elizabeth Peters
"The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way."
Alan Hodgkin
"An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence."
Raymond Chandler
"A flower cannot be more beautiful than your thoughts."
Debasish Mridha M.D.
"If you realize that other people put you down because of their own insecurities, unhappiness and jealousy, you understand that there's no need to be offended. Because it's not really about you, but about them."
Jeanette Coron
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."
George Bernard Shaw
"There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
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