Daily Quotation

"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes​

 

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
-Oscar Wilde​

 

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle​

 

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
-Winston Churchill​

 

"He only profits from praise who values criticism."
-Heinrich Heine​

 

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."
-William Faulkner​

 

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."
-Herman Melville​

 

"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
-Lyndon Baines Johnson​

 

"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found -- in himself."
-Erich Frohm​

 

“Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape”

- George Santayana

 

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
-Thomas Jefferson​

 

"Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties."
-Emil Nolde​

 

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
-George Bernard Shaw​

 

"Existence precedes essence."
-Jean-Paul Sartre​

 

"If men were ever to lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking, they would lose the capacity for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which every civilization is founded."
-Hannah Arendt​

 

"If we wish to live in the light of reason, we must follow rules or principles; for that is what being rational is."
-Isaiah Berlin​

 

"Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology."
-Ian Hacking​

 

"The person who elevates simplicity to a supreme value is like the architect who uses a straight-edge against a fluted column: his calculations won't build a sound building, and he will leave out much of the beauty and value of what is there before him."
-Martha Nussbaum​

 

"There is absolutely no criterion for truth. For reason, senses, ideas, or whatever else may exist are all deceptive."
-Carneades​