A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. -- Arthur Bloch
All men having the same passions, differ only in proportion to their sensibilities. — Jean-Georges Noverre
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidences of effectiveness. -- Ben Bradlee
Consider how many villainies you have perpetrated, and for which the world has not punished you. Consider how often tolerant circumstance has failed to take advantage of your stupidity or your negligence to destroy you. Cast up your demerits and deserts, and see if your reward is unfair. Perhaps, as Carlyle said, you deserve to be hanged and quartered, and should hold yourself lucky if you are only shot. -- Will Durant
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. – Goethe
Discipline is remembering what you want. — David Campbell
Education is what remains over, when one has forgotten everything that one has learnt. -- Adolf von Harnack
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power, and fame. – Goethe
First grub, then ethics. -- Berthold Brecht
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. -- Wittgenstein
If you are under control you're going too slow. -- Parnelli Jones
If you can't bite, don't show your teeth. -- Spanish proverb
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. -- African proverb
In all education the main cause of failure is staleness. -- Alfred North Whitehead
In order to learn from mistakes, you have to first recognize you are making mistakes. — Wall Street Journal
In things necessary, unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity. -- Saint Augustine
Is the glass half empty or is it half filled? It all depends whether you're drinking or pouring. -- Bill Cosby's father
It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one. -- Christopher Hitchens
It is a little embarrassing that, after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other. -- Aldous Huxley
I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to incur it. — General Sherman
Journalism is the second hand on the clock of history. – Schopenhauer
Liberty entails the freedom not to do as one pleases, but to do as one ought. -- Lord Acton
Life is a property of the organization of matter, rather than a property of the matter which is so organized. — Chris Langton
Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes
Money is coined liberty. — Dostoyevsky
No amount of teaching will make a bad man good. -- Theognis
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. -- Italian Proverb
One of our greatest sorrows will be that it is the best we can do. -- Dorothy Parker
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy — whether he knows it or not. — O.A. Battista
People reveal their true being only in what they create. -- Stefan Zweig
Providence don't fire no blank cartridges. — Mark Twain
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. — Tom Stoppard
[Related thought: John Updike writing about a contemporary art show: "The exhibited works compensate in energy what they lack in finish."]
[You might say about some contemporary rock music: "The performances compensate in volume what they lack in musicianship."]
Social and political study is concerned with the grievances, poetry with the griefs. — Robert Frost
The most incomprehensible things about the world is that it is comprehensible. — Albert Einstein
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives, but have only one course of action in mind." -- Frank Herbert
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator. -- Edward Gibbon
This world’s just mad enough to have been made/ By the Being his beings into Being prayed. — Howard Nemerov
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. -- Mark Twain
A transition period is a period between two transition periods. -- George Stiger
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is. And if I die — God forbid — I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, "Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?" -- Kurt Vonnegut
There can be no disparity in marriage like the unsuitability of mind and purpose. -- Charles Dickens
Two themes seem paramount in the history of the last century: (1) the growth of human control over inanimate forms of energy; and (2) an increasing readiness to tinker with social institutions in the hope of attaining desired goals. -- W.K. McNeil
Verily I laughed many a time over the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had lame paws. -- Nietzsche
We are the bees of the invisible. -- Rilke
What distinguishes our culture from all previous cultures is its saturation in entertainment. -- Jonathan Franzen
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. -- Herbert Spencer
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation. -- Charles Darwin
In the age of puberty, the poetic, or the impulse toward the poetic, goes through every young person, usually of course like a passing wave; only rarely does such an inclination outlive youth, since in itself it is only an emanation of youth. — Stefan Zweig
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Diocletian’s Cabbages
At Carnuntum people begged Diocletian to return to the throne, to resolve the conflicts that had arisen through Constantine's rise to power and Maxentius' usurpation. Diocletian's reply: "If you could show the cabbage that I planted with my own hands to your emperor, he definitely wouldn't dare suggest that I replace the peace and happiness of this place with the storms of a never-satisfied greed.”
