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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
Maxim for Revolutionists • George Bernard Shaw“The hands and fingers have a good deal to do with stealing; and the history of many a man's life is written by his ten fingers.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes“″‘And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the den, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable), would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.’ ‘No question,’ he said.””
Republic • Plato“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
East Of Eden • John Steinbeck“Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.”
Journals • Andre Gide