Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer
Source: Rampant
Diana Peterfreund (1979) American writer
Source: Rampant
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Context: Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means enterprise, it means the capacity for doing without. The free man is one who has won a small and precarious territory from the great mob of his inferiors, and is prepared and ready to defend it and make it support him. All around him are enemies, and where he stands there is no friend. He can hope for little help from other men of his own kind, for they have battles of their own to fight. He has made of himself a sort of god in his little world, and he must face the responsibilities of a god, and the dreadful loneliness.
“Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) American musician, poet
Tiger Lilies a novel, Hurd & Houghton , New York 1867
Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…
A speech delivered at Niblo’s Saloon, in New York, on the 15 of March, 1837. <br class="br">The Works of Daniel Webster, Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851, vol. 1, p. 358 http://books.google.com/books?id=9DMOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA358&lpg=PA358&dq=%22They+mean+to+govern+well%3B+but+they+mean+to+govern%22&source=bl&ots=oJ6IWDhF2B&sig=iYuDQMQjnHzxMjzbd6rJohrXVrQ&hl=en&ei=xqYqTKDpFML-nAeF2omjAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCwQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22They%20mean%20to%20govern%20well%3B%20but%20they%20mean%20to%20govern%22&f=false.
“ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.”
Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016) American activist
[Beth, Fouhy, http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/25/fouhy.maloney/, A new version of the ERA, CNN.com, 1999-08-25, 2007-03-30]
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Journal entry (8 July 1916), p. 74e
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
Source: book Man's Search For Meaning