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“Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.”
― Georg Buchner

“Language is the only homeland.”
― Czesław Miłosz

“Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.”
― Johann Gottfried Seume

“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”
― Bruce Chatwin

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.”
― Augustine of Hippo Augustine of Hippo

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point.”
― Cary Grant

“The adolescent is the one who wants to experience everything. The adult comes to realize you can't experience everything.”
― Eric Jensen

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon

“Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.”
― Jodie Foster

“If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.”
― John Wheeler

“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books

“Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The desire to be on sure ground is the relict of an authoritarian frame of mind.”
― Ernst Tugendhat

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, and the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Vol. 4 of 5

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.”
― Ernest Shackleton

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
― Frank Tibolt

“An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.”
― John Steinbeck

“No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
― Isaac Babel, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to. ”
― Sogyal Rinpoche

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
― Bob Samples

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.”
― Andrew Lang

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.”
― Menander of Athens