“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
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“More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.”
David Suzuki (1936) Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist
“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) British writer and philosopher
Quoted in The Times (6 July 1989).
Bill Mollison (1928–2016) Australian permaculturist
Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.10
“A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), p. 143 (in 1998 edition)
“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Source: Malcolm X Speaks (1965), p. 158
“I just make crap up more than anything else.”
Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator
Ain't It Cool News interview
“Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.”
Anna Sui (1964) American fashion designer
via Nika, Colleen. "Exclusive: Anna Sui Discusses Her Spring 2012 Show and Punk Rock Heritage". Rolling Stone (September 14, 2011). http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/exclusive-anna-sui-discusses-her-spring-2012-show-and-punk-rock-heritage-20110914
“Woman's nakedness is wiser than the teachings of the philosophers. [the title of his essay]”
Max Ernst (1891–1976) German painter, sculptor and graphic artist
Quote in Max Ernst, Gonthier-Seghers, Paris, 1959; as cited in Max Ernst sculpture, Museo d'arte contemporanea. Edizioni Charta, Milano, 1996, p. 37
1951 - 1976
“…to Americans English manners are far more frightening than none at all…”
Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 1, p. 12
“Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.”
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland
No. 36.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) British politician
"Gossip in a Library"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
“Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“The enmity of one's kindred is far more bitter than the enmity of strangers.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.”
Chauncey Depew (1834–1928) American politician
My Memories of Eighty Years (1922), p. 318
“That was scarier than Richard Simmons chasin' after you with a box of rubbers!”
Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist
Git-R-Done (album)
“Was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.”
Robert Browning The Ring and the Book
Book VII: Pompilia, line 357.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
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Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
“The essential nature of growth is none other than the overcoming of earthly weight.”
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Callum Coats: The Fertile Earth
“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Plato, Phaedo