Nov 1, 2010
Quotes by Walter Bagehot
"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise, and their conscience that it is wrong".
Quotes by Francis Bacon
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds minds about to religion".
Quotes by St Augustine Of Hippo
"We ... Read More
May 12, 2010
Quotes by Honore de Balzac
"So long as there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another a man can go on being happy with the same woman".
Quotes by Jane Austen
"Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common. Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
Quotes by St Augustine of Hippo
"Here we are called happy when we have peace, such little peace as can be had in a good life; but that happiness, ... Read More
Jan 10, 2010
Simone de Beauvoir
"It is not in giving but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills".
Phineas Taylor Barnum
"There's sucker born every minute".
Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
"Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?"
St Augustine of Hippo
"He that is good is free, though he be a slave; he that is evil is a slave, ... Read More