Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled. Beecher, Harriet Ward
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. Mumford, Lewis
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. Twain, Mark
What a new face courage puts on everything! Emerson, Ralph Waldo
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Shakespeare, […]
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. Tolstoy, Leo
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! Taylor, Jeremy
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do and crosswise to our purposes? For love to bridge these opposites through joy it must not eliminate or deny them.—Even self-love presupposes an irreconcilable duality (or multiplicity) in a single person. Nietzsche, Frederick
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. Goethe, Johann Von
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Douglas, Norman
