Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much, as consigning them to eternal damnation.
—James Hogg (Scottish poet)
His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.
—John Greenleaf Whittier (American Poet, Abolitionist)
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
—Gaston Bachelard (French Philosopher)
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men’s belief that they “own” their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
—C. S. Lewis (Irish-born Author, Scholar)
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
—Alfred Adler (Austrian Psychiatrist)
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
—John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (British Statesman)
Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn’t mean you have to agree. Just because other people say that something is hopeless or crazy or broken to pieces doesn’t mean it is. We decide what story to tell ourselves.
—Ryan Holiday (American Author)
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
—Aeschylus (Greek Playwright)
Evil he overcame by righteousness.
—Nagasena (Buddhist Intellectual)
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning—the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won.
—Simone de Beauvoir (French Philosopher)
One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.
—Michael Palin (English Actor, Writer, Television Traveler)
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
—Emily Bronte (English Novelist, Poet)