The fair, frail palaces,
The fading alps and archipelagoes,
And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
T. B. Aldrich
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we
would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice
and experience of them.
-- Socrates (BC 469-399)
"A machine is as distinctively and brilliantly and expressively human as a violin
sonata or a theorem in Euclid."
-- Gregory Vlastos
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does
what he wants to do.
R. G. Collingwood
There is an ordinance of nature at which men of genius are perpetually fretting, but which
does more good than many laws of the universe which they praise; it is, that ordinary
women ordinarily prefer ordinary men.
-- Walter Bagehot
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it."
--Aristotle
"It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others."
--John Andrew Holmes
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we
are a sorry lot indeed."
-- Albert Einstein
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-- Christopher Morley
One of the favourite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of
truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth,
in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd.
-- Niels Bohr
A man should endeavor to be as pliant as a reed, yet as hard as cedar-wood.
-- The Talmud (B.C. 500?-400? A.D.)