“I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer
Source: The Journals of Mary Shelley
“I am strongly of the opinion that possession of plants, however good, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection.”
Colour in the Garden
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John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
"Address in Berkeley at the University of California (109)" (23 March 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx <br class="br">1963
“Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him!”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
Mark Pesce (1962) American writer
An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version http://hyperreal.org/~mpesce/interview.html
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
" Energized Enthusiasm : A Note On Theurgy http://www.the-equinox.org/vol1/no9/eqi09005.html" in The Equinox Vol. 1 no. 9 (Spring 1913) http://www.the-equinox.org/vol1/no9/index.html. <br class="br">Context: I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession. Its rarity may be attributed to the crushing influence of a corrupted society. It is rare to meet a youth without high ideals, generous thoughts, a sense of holiness, of his own importance, which, being interpreted, is, of his own identity with God. Three years in the world, and he is a bank clerk or even a government official. Only those who intuitively understand from early boyhood that they must stand out, and who have the incredible courage and endurance to do so in the face of all that tyranny, callousness, and the scorn of inferiors can do; only these arrive at manhood uncontaminated.
James Boswell (1740–1795) Scottish lawyer, diarist and author
(31 August 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
“The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man.”
Book III, 1276b.34
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Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787–1872) French physician
Letter to Jean Cruveilhier (1837), as quoted by William Coleman, Death is a Social Disease: Public Health and Political Economy in Early Industrial France (1982)