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“Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of Society is not natural to mankind. It cuts against the grain. A boy would like to follow his father in pursuit of food or prey. He would like to be doing serviceable things so far as his utmost strength allowed. He would like to be earning wages however small to help to keep up the home. He would like to have some leisure of his own to use or misuse as he pleased. He would ask little more than the right to work or starve. And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who are worthy – and why try to stuff in those who are not? – and knowledge and thought would open the ‘magic casements’ of the mind.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
Man and Superman • George Bernard Shaw“To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.”
To the Lighthouse • Virginia Woolf“If the immortal is also imperishable, the soul when attacked by death cannot perish; for the preceding argument shows that the soul will not admit of death, or even be dead, any more than three or the odd number will admit of the even...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself!”
Demian • Hermann Hesse