Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XLV Prophecies
Martin Svoboda
@quick, member from April 4, 2011
Lawrence Taylor (1959) All-American college football player, professional football player, linebacker, Pro Football Hall of Fame member
in 1999 before he was inducted in the Hall of Fame.
“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”
Billie Holiday book Lady Sings the Blues
Source: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 23.
“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) French phenomenological philosopher
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway”
Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor
Robert Downey Jr. on Inside The Actors Studio, quoting Judd Nelson, 2006-07-09
“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist
“You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.”
Louis Sachar book Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Source: Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.
“Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)
“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”
Arthur Rimbaud book Illuminations
Source: Illuminations
“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
“There is only one tragedy in the end, not to have been a saint.”
Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist
In Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Peter Kreeft<br><br> Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs Based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Ignatius Press, 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=VZ-xgfJkNNgC&pg=PA89&dq=%22There+is+only+one+tragedy+in+the+end,+not+to+have+been+a+saint%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIrLb4nOL6yAIVhjk-Ch1XSQVB#v=onepage&q=%22There%20is%20only%20one%20tragedy%20in%20the%20end%2C%20not%20to%20have%20been%20a%20saint%22&f=false
“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”
Léon Bloy (1846–1917) French writer, poet and essayist
Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Volume 19, Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry., 1984 [Association of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry., 1984]
“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist