"[Alcohol] not only replaces positive actions which would address the root causes of our despondency – it prevents them, as more energy becomes focused on achieving and recovering from the drunken state."
CrimethInc.
"We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness..."
Alain de Botton
"When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek."
Nicholas Stuart Gray
"Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
Walter Scott
"Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed."
Zhuangzi
"Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature."
B. C. Forbes
"What must not be read must not be written."
Melita Tessy
"If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations — brought forth by the same deity."
David G. McAfee
"Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?"
Anonymous
"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful."
Ninon de L'Enclos
"Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated."
Jeff Wheeler
"Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"The sun gives us light but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes you'll become a poet."
Serge Bouchard
"You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.'And there’s a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open.'Ash & Urian."
Anonymous
"Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.]."
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