Colm

“All men by nature desire to know.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of a white lampshade looming on a wicker table, roused one to perpetual combat, challenged one to a fight in which one was bound to be worsted.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying