“The future has a way of arriving unannounced.”
Source: Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990
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Source: Restoration
“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
Source: The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Source: A companion to Wittgenstein's
Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
Source: The Mind of the Negro As Reflected in Letters During the Crisis 1800-1860
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930
“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.”
“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
Source: Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
Source: Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara
“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition
“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
“I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.”